What foods contain high fructose corn syrup?

Here are some products that contain HFCS or, as its called in the UK, glucose fructose syrup:

Kellogg’s Cornflakes
Kellogg’s All Bran
Kellogg’s Rice Crispies
Ribena
Ocean Spray cranberry juice (a real shocker as so many women buy this to help with cystitis)
Mullerice apple & Mullerice caramel
Yoplait Petits Filous (marketed at children)
Fromage Frais
McVities HobNobs
McVities Jaffa Cakes
Carte D’Or ice cream
Weightwatchers vanilla and fruit fromage frais (this is worrying as this is so called ‘diet’ food)
Frubes
Mr Kipling Bakewell slices
Lucozade
Yop yoghurt strawberry

Going round the supermarket the other day the number of products with this has risen greatly, and sadly there are just too many to list. Do particularly look out for it in yoghurts.

Has it been proven to affect our metabolism?

Scientists have indeed proved that HFCS can damage human metabolism and may well be fuelling the obesity crisis. Fructose, a sweetener derived from corn, can cause dangerous growths of fat cells around vital organs and is able to trigger the early stages of diabetes and heart disease. Fructose bypasses the digestive process that breaks down other forms of sugar. It arrives intact in the liver where it causes a variety of abnormal reactions, including the disruption of mechanisms that instruct the body whether to burn or store fat. Kimber Stanhope, a molecular biologist who led the study, says “This is the first evidence we have that fructose increases diabetes and heart disease independently from causing simple weight gain.” “We didn’t see any of these changes in the people eating glucose.”

High-fructose corn syrup, or glucose-fructose syrup, is listed as an ingredient in many food and drink products in Britain, although it is virtually impossible for consumers to know the quantity and ratio of fructose used. Barry Popkin, professor of Nutrition at the University of North Carolina, and a US government adviser on health policy, said: “Historically, we never consumed much sugar. We’re not built to process it.” The Food and Drink Federation, a UK industry trade group, have said: “It makes no sense to highlight one single ingredient as a cause of obesity.”

Whatever you choose to believe, this week a new report is expected to claim that about one in 10 children in England will be obese by 2015. Grim news indeed, and our genes cannot change that fast – something else is happening.

Hey Lesley. According to the vid in op they do, and have been since the 70s. I know sugar isn't much better for you, but my concern is that they have been adding this replacement to stuff and calling it "sugar", when it isn't and can have some dire consequences to your health.

I agree with Hada that it's all down to individual choice and responsibility, but that argument kind of falls on its arse when you are told that something is something that it isn't and some cases, aren't told at all (at least not in any way you'd be able to tell, unless you knew what you were looking for), particularly when it's added to prolong shelf-life and stuff. Vid is worth a watch if you have the time: it was on i-player from the beeb, which makes me wary, but I kind of knew something like this was going on before I watched it. If there is an angle, I haven't figured it out yet.