Corn Syrup:
• Corn syrup is the food product and natural sweetener which derived from corn starch
• It is the basic ingredients for many food products like cookies, crackers, catsups, ice cream, canned fruits , soup and may other purpose
• Corn syrup is rich with high fructose which is sweet as sugar mostly used in soft drinks.
Use of corn syrup as food product
• List of food that contains HFCS (high fructose corn syrup):
• Baking and cooking ingredients
• Beverages
• Breads
• Breakfast Cereals
• Candy Bars
• Cookies and cakes
Product contains Corn syrup
• Cough Syrup
• Crackers
• Dairy
• Drink Mixers
• Baked Vegetables and fruits
• Ice cream
• Jam Syrup
• Salad dressing
Raw Materials
• Huge number of maize exporter from india exporting corn for many industrial purposes.
• There are several verities of corn are available but the core part of corn syrup is made from yellow #2 dent corn
• Common variety grown in
Midwestern portion of US.
Other raw materials used in corn syrup
• Other raw materials used to convert corn into corn syrup
• Sulfur dioxide
• Hydrochloric acid
• Various enzymes and
• Water
Nutritional Content
• When syrup s combine with Karo light its contains 120 calories and nearly 30g of carbohydrate
• It contains various nutritional benefits like Sodium, Potassium ,Magnesium, Calcium, and Vitamins like
• Vitamin A
• Vitamin D
• Vitamin B- 6,12
The Manufacturing Process
• Corn syrup is produced by the process of wet corn mills
• In addition to the corn syrup ,the other materials are also produced along it, that includes
• Corn oil
• Corn starch
• Dextrose
• Soap stock
• Animal feed etc.,
HFCS Process Description
Types of Corn Syrup
• The best –known commercial brand is Karo which manufactures
• Dark, Solid and
• Light corn syrups.
• The light variety contains light corn syrup with vanilla and medium amount of salt
• The dark variety of corn syrup contains caramel flavor, salt , sodium bezonate.
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