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Not at all, but there is I understand some subsidy system that favours using corn syrup as a sweetener - and in mass production it can be added to almost any food to make it sweeter.

As USA founded/headquartered companies have taken over more of UK food production it \appears\ that this has been coincident with the increased usage of HFCS to sweeten traditional UK foods. That appearance is so strong that it is a stereotype in UK society "this tastes sickly sweet now, oh yeah, Kraft took over so they probably put corn-syrup in it".

It might just be that as USA capitalism has optimised squeezing more money out of lower quality food by adding cheaper ingredients other countries have optimised for financial profit in the same way?

I've never heard similar issues raised against the food industry of other countries; even so, perhaps it's an unwarranted stereotype?

I'm open if you want to try and change my view?

[Hmm, reading that back it's no longer clear to me what you are saying, I read your post as if the second sentence were a question; apologies if I erred.]