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Loki van Lodenaken @lokivanlodenaken.bsky.social

What's HFCS?

jul 29, 2025, 1:00 pm • 1 0

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Limber Pine @kotiak.bsky.social

High fructose corn syrup.

jul 29, 2025, 1:02 pm • 1 0 • view
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Kait Richardson 🥔 @thryse.com

High-fructose corn syrup, targeted mostly by the same people as talk about “seed oils” and don’t actually know any science.

jul 29, 2025, 1:04 pm • 5 0 • view
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Loki van Lodenaken @lokivanlodenaken.bsky.social

Oof that supersweet thing? How is it made? I assume everyone assumes hyperprocessed?

jul 29, 2025, 1:05 pm • 1 0 • view
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dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com

Converting starch from corn into glucose, and then adding enzymes to convert it partially into fructose. Pretty much as bad for you as any other kind of sugar, but a target nonetheless.

jul 29, 2025, 1:12 pm • 1 0 • view
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dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com

Everything in America is made of corn.

jul 29, 2025, 1:13 pm • 1 0 • view
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Kait Richardson 🥔 @thryse.com

And it’s basically fine as far as that goes!

jul 29, 2025, 1:15 pm • 1 0 • view
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dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com

Oh yeah it’s fine it’s just also funny. 1/3rd of Iowa is cornfields.

jul 29, 2025, 1:16 pm • 1 0 • view
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Loki van Lodenaken @lokivanlodenaken.bsky.social

They got AB InBev to switch Jupiler to corn based beer and I honestly taste it Now it tastes like Dutch Heineken aka horse piss

jul 29, 2025, 1:16 pm • 1 0 • view
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Kait Richardson 🥔 @thryse.com

Eugenicist fascists like RFK Jr. need visible health “enemies” to focus on but they’re never based in scientific reality, just ideology.

jul 29, 2025, 1:14 pm • 3 0 • view
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Kait Richardson 🥔 @thryse.com

It’s a mix of glucose and fructose made from corn starch which probably isn’t significantly different in health effects from pure fructose or glucose, that is to say that any negative effects on health are simply due to overconsumption of refined sugar.

jul 29, 2025, 1:11 pm • 9 1 • view
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Loki van Lodenaken @lokivanlodenaken.bsky.social

Oh. Yes indeed, if you use too much of those what we call raisinsugar you can get diarrhea yes. Does help for a certain type diabetes thou to boost their bloodsugarlevels

jul 29, 2025, 1:15 pm • 1 0 • view