High Fructose Corn Syrup-- A Honey of a Sweetener?

Have you noticed ads recently quietly sponsored by the Corn Refiners Association? The television advertising presents senarios of one person being apprehensive about accepting a beverage or somesuch made from high fructose corn syrup and the other person assuring them its all natural and so okay.
Buoyed by a recent FDA finding, the CRA has been advertising its product as natural and equal to honey and table sugar.
“Upon careful review of the manufacturing process for High Fructose Corn Syrup, the FDA found that HFCS can be labeled natural,” stated Audrae Erickson, president, Corn Refiners Association. “HFCS contains no artificial or synthetic ingredients or color additives and meets FDA’s requirements for the use of the term ‘natural.’ HFCS, like table sugar and honey, is natural. It is made from corn, a natural grain product.”
Specifically, the FDA stated “we would not object to the use of the term ‘natural’ on a product containing the HFCS produced by the manufacturing process…” commonly employed in the corn refining industry. A copy of the letter clarifying FDA’s views on the use of the term natural for products containing HFCS can be found at www.corn.org/FDAdecision7-7-08.pdf.”
So the conclusion seems to be that HFCS can now be touted as just as good for you as honey.