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By Edvard Pettersson, Michelle Fay Cortez, and Shruti Singh

October 6, 2015 at 11:00 PM UTC

Updated on

October 7, 2015 at 6:03 AM UTC

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Big Sugar and Big Syrup are heading for a showdown.

After years of bickering, U.S. sugar companies and their rivals, the makers of high-fructose corn syrup, are going to trial over what exactly constitutes a “natural” sweetener.