jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) (08/05/85)
> 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.) ------ Shasta and Karo are trademarks (probably of Shasta Cola Co. and Karo Syrup Co, but I am not sure.) -- Shyy-Anzr: J. Eric Roskos UUCP: ..!{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!vax135!petsd!peora!jer US Mail: MS 795; Perkin-Elmer SDC; 2486 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, FL 32809-7642 "Frr ubj Tbq jvgu uvf yvtugavat nyjnlf fzvgrf gur ovttre navznyf, naq jvyy abg fhssre gurz gb jnk vafbyrag; juvyr gurfr bs n yrffre ohyx punsr uvz abg." -- Negnonavf
john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer) (08/11/85)
Something is confusing me: When Coca-Cola Classic hit the shelves, everybody (including me) complained that it wasn't really Old Coke since Old Coke's ingredient list listed "sugar" while Classic's list mentioned "high fructose corn syrup and/or sucrose". Now, a number of people have come out and sid that since 1980 or thereabouts, Old Coke had corn syrup in it. 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?? [Forgive my cross-posting this to net.legal; I figured someone there might be familiar with the laws concerning ingredient lists.] -- Name: John Ruschmeyer US Mail: Monmouth College, W. Long Branch, NJ 07764 Phone: (201) 222-6600 x366 UUCP: ...!vax135!petsd!moncol!john ...!princeton!moncol!john ...!pesnta!moncol!john Silly quote: DM: I'm going to take the car into a bank. Col. K: Don't do it, DM. It'll never fit through the door.