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HFCS

HFCS is the initialism of high fructose corn syrup.

Meaning of high fructose corn syrup

Noun

high fructose corn syrup (usually uncountable, plural high fructose corn syrups)

  1. (US, usually) A type of corn syrup that has undergone an enzymatic processing to convert some of its glucose into fructose in order to produce a desired sweetness.
    • In 1982, high fructose corn syrup production amounted to 8.4 billion pounds with a value well in excess of one billion dollars.2005, P.R. Yadav, Raijv Tyagi, Industrial Biotechnology, page 174

Noun capitalized: HFCs

HFCs

  1. (plural) plural of HFC

Questions about HFCS

What is HFCS the initialism of?
HFCS is the initialism of high fructose corn syrup.
What part of speech is HFCS?
HFCS is a noun.

Words near HFCS in the dictionary

  1. hezrous
  2. hf
  3. HFA
  4. HFAs
  5. HFC
  6. HFCS
  7. HFD
  8. HFDs
  9. HFE
  10. HFEA
  11. HFFA

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Adapted from Wiktionary: HFCS (page history and authors); HFCs (page history and authors); high fructose corn syrup (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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