Glossary
high-fructose corn syrup
high-fructose corn syrup is (HFCS) is the sweetener tracked by USDA ERS alongside sugar. In Datadory's catalog of 1,744 datasets, USDA ERS Sugar and Sweeteners Yearbook Tables - and USDA ERS - US and Mexican supply and use, world and domestic prices are working examples.
What is high-fructose corn syrup?
High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is the sweetener tracked by USDA ERS alongside sugar, dextrose, glucose and honey in the Sugar and Sweeteners Yearbook, which publishes US and Mexican supply-and-use balances plus world and domestic prices - the input-cost side of soft-drink manufacturing.
In this catalog it appears concretely: - USDA ERS Sugar and Sweeteners Yearbook Tables - (tagging) — "sugar, hfcs, sweeteners, prices". - USDA ERS - US and Mexican supply and use, world and domestic prices. - USDA ERS - caloric sweetener deliveries since 1966 used as a consumption proxy.
Why does high-fructose corn syrup matter when choosing a dataset?
Conventions decide whether two sources can be joined at all. Buy one side of an analysis that ignores this convention and every reconciliation step — calendar alignment, unit conversion, entity matching — lands on your team instead of the vendor's.
The failure mode is concrete: the label appears in a listing, the delivered files tell a different story, and the gap surfaces mid-project when fixing it is most expensive.
You rarely have to take a vendor's word for it. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets Datadory catalogs are free to access, and USDA ERS Sugar and Sweeteners Yearbook Tables - lets you inspect the real artifact before any budget is committed.
How do you evaluate high-fructose corn syrup in a data source?
Treat every claim of this attribute as testable:
- Read USDA ERS Sugar and Sweeteners Yearbook Tables -'s record on tagging — "sugar, hfcs, sweeteners, prices" — then confirm the delivered artifact matches before you license anything.
- Open USDA ERS - US and Mexican supply and use, world and domestic prices and compare its listing against the delivered artifact before paying for a commercial equivalent.
- Open USDA ERS - caloric sweetener deliveries since 1966 used as a consumption proxy and compare its listing against the delivered artifact before paying for a commercial equivalent.
See the term applied to real records: fertilizers-agricultural-chemicals data, packaged-foods-meats data.
Related terms
Adjacent concepts worth reading next: - food balance sheets - sugar-sweetened beverages - tariff-rate quota
Frequently asked questions
What is an example of high-fructose corn syrup?
USDA ERS Sugar and Sweeteners Yearbook Tables - is the clearest example in this catalog. Its record on tagging reads: "sugar, hfcs, sweeteners, prices". Across all 1,744 datasets Datadory averages a quality score of 7.81 out of 10, so a named example can be weighed rather than trusted blindly.
Is data described as "high-fructose corn syrup" free to use?
Treat access and permission separately. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets in this catalog are free to access, but 235 are freemium and 61 are paid outright, so confirm both the price and the license on the exact distribution before building on it.
How do I verify a source really provides high-fructose corn syrup?
Open USDA ERS Sugar and Sweeteners Yearbook Tables - next to USDA ERS - US and Mexican supply and use, world and domestic prices and compare the promise with the download. Field definitions are verified for 1495 of 1,744 datasets (85.7%), which makes that check fast inside the catalog and manual outside it.
Datasets containing this field
Datasets containing high-fructose corn syrup
6 datasets carry high-fructose corn syrup in the catalog. Open one, count the fields, judge for yourself.
CEH Land Cover plus: Fertilisers 2010-2015 (England)
Chemicals & Fertilizers sector datasets (India)
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Defra British Survey of Fertiliser Practice
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