Guardian: Few Britons know how to cook with high-fructose corn syrup, a sweetener made by adding enzymes to corn starch. In the US, however, it is ubiquitous in processed food. Just as American farmers feed their cattle corn because the government subsidises it – and must dose cows so their stomachs can tolerate grain rather than grass – the US population is hooked on corn, for the worst of reasons. It was Michael Pollan who chronicled how this unhealthy state of affairs had come about in his 2006 …