US consumption of HFCS & All Caloric Sweeteners

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U.S. per capita food consumption

Caloric sweeteners

Dry weight, pounds per capita per year

The first column is the year.

The second is cane and beet sugar (-61%)

The third is corn sweeteners (+491%)

The fourth is edilble syrups (-68%)

The fifth is honey (even)

The sixth is total (+18%)

The 491 is a little misleading as most of it was to

replace cane and beet sugar and started at almost

nothing.. Cane and beet is done about 40# per capita

and HFCS is up around 62#

We are up about 20 # per person per year..

At around 1600 calories per pound thats 32,000,

divivded by 365 = 87 calories a day.. or 8#..

Not enough to exlpain the obesity epidemic regardless

of how much or how little of the sugar we extract

energy from...

And HFCS and Sugars are beginning to trend down..

2004 61.5 78.1 .34 1.0 141.0

2003 60.9 79.1 .34 1.1 141.4

2002 63.2 81.5 .35 1.1 146.1

2001 64.5 81.3 .35 .94 147.0

2000 65.5 81.8 .35 1.1 148.8

1999 66.3 83.5 .36 1.1 151.3

1998 64.9 82.7 .36 .94 148.9

1997 64.9 81.5 .37 .95 147.7

1996 65.2 78.2 .37 .97 144.7

1995 64.9 77.9 .38 .90 144.1

1994 64.4 75.9 .38 .95 141.6

1993 63.8 73.9 .38 1.0 139.1

1992 64.2 70.5 .39 .98 136.1

1991 63.6 68.0 .39 .91 132.9

1990 64.4 66.8 .40 .82 132.4

1989 62.8 64.6 .40 .77 128.5

1988 62.1 66.9 .41 .82 130.2

1987 62.4 65.2 .41 .86 128.8

1986 60.0 62.8 .42 1.0 124.3

1985 62.7 62.2 .42 .88 126.2

1984 66.7 53.8 .40 .91 121.8

1983 70.3 47.6 .40 .99 119.3

1982 73.7 42.7 .40 .90 117.7

1981 79.4 39.1 .40 .84 119.8

1980 83.6 35.3 .44 .82 120.2

1979 89.3 31.8 .39 1.0 122.6

1978 91.4 28.4 .40 1.1 121.3

1977 94.2 27.3 .40 .91 122.8

1976 93.4 25.2 .40 .92 119.9

1975 89.2 23.3 .40 1.0 113.8

1974 95.7 21.2 .40 .70 117.9

1973 100.8 19.7 .50 .90 122.0

1972 102.3 17.8 .50 1.0 121.5

1971 102.1 16.7 .50 .90 120.2

1970 101.8 15.9 .50 1.0 119.1