date:Jun 03, 2014
999. The U.S.D.A. described its food availability data as a popular proxy for actual consumption.
The drop in sweetener availability has come nearly entirely from corn sweeteners, which include high-fructose corn syrup, glucose syrup and dextrose. Per capital availability in 2012 was 61.4 lbs, down 26% from 83.1 lbs in 1999.
Corn sweeteners took a big bite out of the caloric sweetener market share held by refined cane/beet sugar from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Since 1983 though, sugar ava