Whether you feed people honey, table sugar, or high fructose corn syrup, you see similarly

negative metabolic effects.

A meta-analysis of all such studies found there didn't appear to be any difference between

the negative effects of high fructose corn syrup and table sugar on body on body fat blood pressure blood sugars, triglycerides, or cholesterol.

But high-fructose corn syrup did appear to be more pro-inflammatory.

One thing that sets apart corn syrup from sugar is mercury, detecting about half the samples

of high-fructose corn syrup analyzed.

In terms of diet, mercury is routinely detected in fish, but it's also found in other

meat like poultry because farmers routinely feed fish meal to chickens.

But how is mercury getting into corn syrup?

Everything you want to know but we're afraid to ask. It turns out mercury can

enter the corn sweetener market line in one of two ways. The use of mercury-processed chemicals

and the manufacturing process or the intentional addition of mercury-contained chemicals.

Either way, does this actually make it to the consumer? Researchers looked at 50 different brands of foods containing corn syrup, from soda

pop-pop to pop tards, you'll play yogurt, jelly.

The result?

About 30% were contaminated with detectable levels of mercury.

Enough to be harmful?

With the average daily consumption of corn syrup and how much mercury they found, the

potential average daily total mercury exposure from high-fructose corn syrup could range from

zero to 28 micrograms. This range can be compared to the range of total mercury exposure from

those silvery dental-amalgam mercury fillings we get for cavities, Canada and other

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