A step in the right direction. The key to better nutrition will be determined by whether Tyson abstains from replacing the HFCS with table sugar, sucrose. Because HFCS is very close in composition to sucrose i.e. primarily made up of glucose and fructose, the real negative impact of HFCS was that, being cheaper than table sugar, processed food companies started adding it to everything they manufactured. Substituting sucrose for the HFCS just continues the negative effects at a higher cost.
As a side note, despite having the connotation of being a healthy sugar "it's from fruit!", fructose can really mess with your liver and other parts of your metabolic/endocrine systems. Corn syrup, before its glucose is enzymatically converted to 42 or 55% fructose is easier on your liver, though gobbling down too much will lead to diabetes just as surely as gobbling too much HFCS or table sugar or highly refined grains.
Anyhoo, enough chem/biochem, Here's the Wall Street Journal with the business story, September 15:
Meat company’s pledge follows Trump administration push to reduce usage of certain ingredients in food
Tyson Foods said it would stop using high-fructose corn syrup in branded products by the end of the year, the latest company to change recipes as the Trump administration takes aim at ingredients used in processed foods.
The Arkansas-based meatpacking giant that owns brands such as Jimmy Dean, Ball Park and Hillshire said it would also stop using the artificial sweetener sucralose, the preservative BHA/BHT and titanium dioxide, a food coloring.
Tyson said the decision was voluntary and follows its previous efforts to reduce sodium, sugars and other food additives. Chief Executive Donnie King said Tyson continuously reviews and assesses its product portfolio to meet the needs of consumers.
Tyson, which processes one-fifth of all chicken, beef and pork sold in the U.S., said its goal was to stop using high-fructose corn syrup and the other ingredients in its U.S. branded products by the end of the year. Tyson products that list the sweetener as an ingredient range from frozen honey battered breast tenders to frozen Jimmy Dean sausage, egg and cheese croissant breakfast sandwiches, according to labels on its products sold at supermarkets.
The Trump administration has been pushing food companies to change the way they manufacture products as part of an effort led by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to address Americans’ chronic health problems.
Kennedy has called on companies to eliminate synthetic dyes in food, which he has linked to chronic conditions in children. Kennedy’s “Make America Healthy Again” proposal said the Trump administration would seek to restrict use of federal food assistance programs for junk food and establish a national definition of “ultraprocessed food.”
Big food companies, including Kraft Heinz and J.M. Smucker, have said they would remove artificial colors. In May, Tyson said it would remove petroleum-based synthetic dyes from its products.
President Trump in July encouraged Coca-Cola to use cane sugar in its sodas. “It’s just better!” Trump said in a Truth Social post. Coca-Cola later said it would release a version of its soda with cane sugar, but that the new version wouldn’t replace its traditional corn syrup offering.
Mills across the U.S. grind up corn to make roughly 7 million tons of high-fructose corn syrup a year. The sweetener is cheaper and more abundant for food and beverage makers than cane sugar....
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