• Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Depends. It’s either a pound of cream cheese or a pound of HFCS. Bonus points for adding both to a dish.

    • stray@pawb.social
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      2 days ago

      Do people for reals buy HFCS for home baking? Like you can just go buy a jug at the grocery store? I’ve seen it in ingredients lists of packaged foods, but I’ve never seen the stuff itself IRL. (Gonna assume it looks roughly like syrup. Corn syrup maybe.)

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        2 days ago

        It is corn syrup. And people buy it for cooking, not just companies. Think cookies and home-made candies.

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            2 days ago

            The processing causes the glucose to break down into fructose, which is perceived as sweeter. In the end, it’s just different types of sugar in syrup form.