🌍 Global industrial production (corn starch hydrolysis; wheat, tapioca also used; global food industry; confectionery, baking, fermentation; major producers: Tate & Lyle, Cargill, Roquette)
🕰️ ~1950s-70s US (high-fructose corn syrup pipeline; glucose syrup as intermediate); confectionery standard; replaced sucrose in many applications 1970s-90s