Stealth Lobbying Used to Tout Sugar Over Rival Corn Syrup

A group that bills itself as the “voice of the natural-health consumer” has received about $300,000 from the sugar industry to help campaign against high-fructose corn syrup as an alternative sweetener.

Citizens for Health, a Washington-based nonprofit organization, received more than half its funding in the past year from the Sugar Association. The money has been used to tell consumers that corn syrup isn’t sugar, Chairman James Turner said in an interview.