"corn" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- But foreign sugar cannot be imported - so companies instead use corn sweetener, which costs about 12 cents a pound.
- Analysts say Archer-Daniels's profits on corn sweetener in 1994 totaled about $290 million.
- By all accounts, the big British sugar company is facing a long, acrimonious battle for Staley, a leading producer of corn sweeteners.
- A.D.M. wanted to acquire a competitor's capacity to make corn sweetener, and the Government said the deal would reduce competition.
- The four biggest producers have 85 percent of the market for corn sweetener.
- Some analysts have estimated that at least a quarter of the company's operating income comes from corn sweetener.
- They switched to cheaper corn sweeteners in the 1980's.
- Now, for example, 90 percent of domestic caloric soft drinks have high-fructose corn sweeteners.
- Since the 1980's, most soft drink manufacturers have switched from sugar to corn sweeteners, as have most snack makers.
- Nearly 10 percent of the calories Americans consume now come from corn sweeteners; the figure is 20 percent for many children.
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