...So, about high fructose corn syrup.

The_Saint

Does that make corn a fruit now?

Zeromilediet

It's whatever the government says it is :-)

Seriously, it's a grass--evolved from teosinte. Here's an excerpt from Omnivore's Dilemma about corn http://michaelpollan.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/omnivore_young_readers_excerpt.pdf
A real eye opener for me.