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> How can this be? Shouldn't it have said so on the label? If corn syrup were
> being used and the label only listed sugar, wouldn't this be violating some
> law or FTC rule or something??

This is a hard question; probably posting it to net.legal was a good idea,
since the answer would be in the definition of "sugar".  Technically, both
fructose (in the corn syrup) and sucrose (in the table sugar) are sugars;
but then, so is the cellulose in wood.

I think (though I may definitely be wrong) that fructose is a
monosaccharide, whereas sucrose is a disaccharide; this would mean that it
was easier for human beings to break down, since I think the series of
reactions that breaks down sugars and stores the energy as ATP starts out
with monosaccharides, with an extra step in there beforehand to break down
the disaccharides. (But then, biochemistry was probably my worst subject,
and that was years ago, so I might be wrong.)  I think Shasta made a lot
of publicity out of the fact that they used fructose, back when health
foods were a popular fad, as a result of that.

But in any case, unless there is some legal definition that makes the word
"sugar" on the can mean "sucrose," it would appear that the can would be
correct in saying "sugar" for corn syrup.  (Not corn oil as someone mentioned
earlier, though!  Corn syrup, like in Karo (tm) pancake syrup.)

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