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#Make Your Own Small-Batch, Artisanal High Fructose Corn Syrupthink of corn on a hot summer's day. Sweet delicious all-American corn. It's stuck in your teeth and you barely care as your practiced jaw scrapes the pure taste of the season from the cob. Now think of high-fructose corn syrup. You probably don't have an idyllic childhood memory to go along with the sugarglop that's killing both the American people and the American tradition of agriculture. Just a guess! HFCS as it's called is a relentlessly common sweetener in everything from soda to bread. It's used because in bulk it's incredibly cheap thanks to agricultural subsidies from the US government that encourage farmers to grow the high-yield flavorless -when-unprocessed variety of corn used for HFCS. One of the many odd things about high-fructose corn syrup is that you can't really buy the pure stuff in a store. What's even in the stuff? That's what artist and designer Maya Weinstein wondered--except she actually secured the ingredients for her thesis project at Parsons. The DIY HFCS Kit includes all of the delicious materials that go into our country's finest weirdest sweetener: glucose isomerase sulfuric acid alpha amylase and more (those enzymes are used to convert the glucose to fructose. It's not that hard to make: basically just combine everything in the kit besides the glucose isomerase strain through cheesecloth heat add glucose isomerase boil and cool. Weinstein went over to the Bon Appetit offices to demonstrate her kit and interestingly it was a hit with the editors there. Before it's filtered to remove its yellow color and much of its flavor it tastes like corn candy according to the editor of Bon Appetit's site. The filtering removes any extant flavors that might not go with whatever you want to sweeten and in mass production this syrup is purified often to become as high as 90%fructose--nearly pure sweetness basically. The project isn't really for mass consumption; the kit itself costs $70-80 in raw materials to yield just a small jar of corn syrup. Corn syrup is used by so many food producers because it's cheap in bulk and because the government gives lots of rebates and tax incentives to use the stuff--in small doses it's cheaper to go with honey or plain sugar. But it's a pretty interesting experiment to see how something we all eat all the time is made actually. Check out the project here. via Bon Appetit Man made sugar from cain or corn is the devil's blood. Your better off with out it. Glucose Isomeraseglucose Isomerase is engineered a genetically enzyme (Streptomyces) produced through the fermentation of microorganisms using a variety of bacteria. Glucose Isomerase converts starches into sugars by changing glucose into fructose. Glucose Isomerase was developed for the process of making high fructose corn syrup. Sulfuric Acidsulfuric Acid A highly corrosive strong mineral acid. A component in battery acid drain cleaner and lead batteries. Sulfuric acid functions as a preservative in the procedure for making high fructose corn syrup. Alpha Amylasealpha Amylase is a bacterial enzyme similar to what our saliva produces to break down starches. Alpha amylase is a starch-splitting enzyme used to separate sugar from starch and seperate sugar into shorter chain oligosaccharides. Glucose Amylaseglucose Amylase is an industrial enzyme derived from a yeast or fungi. Glucose Amylase further catalyzes the breakdown of malto-oligosaccharides to glucose. Xylosexylose D Xylose is a five carbon sugar. Xylose is converted into D xylulose through the isomerization process of making high fructose corn syrup. It would really be DIY if they forced you to make Xylose or Alpha amylase. The real question here is...Why the f*ck does Popsci have credited 8 staff (For their website I know) and the sh*ttiest articles? Thought you libs were all about Government intervention. Sorry if it's more than you asked for...If you're looking for some adventure in the kitchen I recommend making your own yogurt sourdough bread or mozzarella. They are fun healthy and make you more popular with friends. Dude can you bring over some more of your bread and cheese! not Dude can you bring over some more of your high-fructose corn syrup! Yogurt is pretty easy. The hardest part is finding an unadulterated culture to start with. Plain Chobani yogurt is good. Most yogurts have crap in them so they won't work right. Bring a quart of milk to 185 degrees. Let it cool down to about 110 degrees. Drop in about 2 tablespoons of room-temperature yogurt and mix well. Put the inoculated milk into a sterile container and cover it. Keep it at 100 degrees for 8-12 hours. Strain and chill. Keep some aside for your next batch. Who in their right mind would want to make HFCS that's what I want to know? I'm doing my best to stay away from this kind of crappy food so don't give my mind ideas! Only harm comes from man made cain sugar and corn sugar. If a person eats for pleasure they include sugar and all the associated health problems. If a person eats with the mind set for health there is zero reason to eat man made sugars NONE.**cane sugar. Cain was the first dude I think. Wanamingo Thank you for the correction lol I appreciate it. Maybe cain sugar was a Freudian slip? Cain was a bad dude. This ID is obsolete. On Twitter I'm known as Thunderbill2. In any case I'm appalled that Popsci would even consider such an article. are satisfied you not with the rate of deaths from diabetes and heart disease? Must you teach people how to poison themselves? Outrageous...i don't think anyone who commented here actually understood the article. this article explicitly says that it is cost-prohibitive to make HFCS in small batches as well as the whole thing was done by a grad student for a thesis project. this article is basically reporting on an art project. try not to get too worked up about this . i doubt this will become a thing. it's just interesting that someone did it to show how it is done. Aaronjacobwillman You appear to have elegant writing skills. May I suggest using capitals in your sentences where needed. And just to let you know indented paragraphs do not work posting to Popsci but hitting enter twice does force blank line to simulate a paragraph change e

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