High fructose corn syrup can be as high as 58%, but typically is 55% in the US. Some people will say that 5% extra fructose doesn't seem to be that much big of a difference. The way they used to make high fructose corn syrup, and I haven't seen evidence to fully prove this isn't still a problem, there were a lot of chloralkali reagents used which can have mercury contamination. It was like 0.5 micrograms per gram of mercury up until 2009.

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