ST. LOUIS — A mother pours a child a flavored drink, a younger woman offers her boyfriend a Popsicle — then both are confronted about the health effects of high-fructose corn syrup.
Their response? The sweetener is made from corn, has no artificial ingredients and is fine in moderation, the women say in two commercials a trade group is airing in the hope of rehabilitating the image of the ubiquitous sweetener, used in everything from cereals to sodas to bread.
The TV commercials, launched this week, are part of a national advertising blitz by the Corn Refiners Association. “This is designed to correct the record,” said Audrae Erickson, the association’s president, adding that it’s “not a campaign to drive consumption” of corn syrup. The Associated Press
