{"id":1257,"date":"2009-02-15T23:32:51","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T04:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=1257"},"modified":"2009-02-16T20:10:02","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T01:10:02","slug":"hfcs-in-karo-light-corn-syrup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/15\/hfcs-in-karo-light-corn-syrup\/","title":{"rendered":"HFCS in Karo Light Corn Syrup"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today Danielle and I headed over to my parents house. While there we made a double batch of caramels using this recipe from The Kitchn<\/a>. While the caramels are excellent, the Karo<\/a> Light Corn Syrup we used contains High Fructose Corn Syrup<\/a>, whose presence greatly confuses me. I can understand the addition of vanilla and salt, but I don’t understand what business HFCS has in what should be a fairly basic product.<\/p>\n

That said, the resulting caramels do taste excellent. Here is a photo of the caramel boiling after the addition of the cream, as we were getting it up to 248\u00b0F so it could be poured into the form.<\/a> Yes, that’s a classic mercury bulb candy thermometer.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong> I emailed Karo to ask why Light Corn Syrup would possibly have HFCS in it, and I actually received some interesting replies. It seems that this has been an ingredient since the 70s in order to increase sweetness, but it was recently removed due to customer requests. I guess the bottle of it that my mom has is a bit old and we just need to purchase another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today Danielle and I headed over to my parents house. While there we made a double batch of caramels using this recipe from The Kitchn.…<\/p>\n

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