Justin Fox, Columnist

Sugar Is Finally More Popular Than Corn Syrup Again

Obesity-plagued Americans still love their sweeteners.

August 10, 2017 at 3:36 PM UTC

Justin Fox is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering business, economics and other topics involving charts. A former editorial director of the Harvard Business Review, he is author of “The Myth of the Rational Market.”

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Over the past 17 years, Americans have managed to cut their consumption of sugars by more than 15 percent. Here's the latest data, released this month by the U.S. Department of Agriculture:

All of that decline, as is apparent from the chart, has been in corn sweeteners -- consumption of sugar made from cane or beets is actually up a bit since the 1990s. And the overall drop in sweetener use seems to have stalled over the past four years.1502300549274