NALT

Preferred term

high fructose corn syrup

Product

Syrup made from corn used widely in foods and beverages as a cheaper alternative sweetener to sucrose (common table sugar). It is generated by enzymatic processing of natural corn syrup to produce a liquid most widely composed of 42 or 55% fructose, glucose, and various polysaccharides.

corn syrup

fructose high corn syrup
glucose-fructose syrup
HFCS (high fructose corn syrup)
high-fructose maize syrup
isoglucose

Field 001 in MARC Authority Format

18274

Spanish

jarabe de maíz con alto contenido en fructosa

URI

https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/29198

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Created 1/19/06, last modified 3/13/19