Corn syrup
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Corn syrup is a food syrup that is made from the starch of corn/maize and contains varying amounts of sugars: glucose, maltose and higher oligosaccharides, depending on the grade. Corn syrup is used i
Corn syrup
A railroad tank car carrying corn syrup
1917 Karo advertisement encouraging corn syrup as a wartime sugar substitute
Corn starch
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Corn starch or cornstarch, cornflour is the starch powder derived from corn grain. The starch is obtained from the endosperm of the kernel.
Corn syrup
…The more general term glucose syrup is often used synonymously with corn syrup, since glucose syrup in the United States is most commonly made from corn starch. Technically, glucose syrup is any liquid starch hydrolysate of mono-, di-, and higher-saccharides and can be made from any source of starch: wheat…
Corn starch powder
Corn starch mixed in water
Advertisement for a Cornflour manufacturer, 1894
Advertisement by the US Food Administration, 1918, indicating corn starch as "wholesome" and "nutritious"