HFCS has roughly the same fructose:glucose ratio as table sugar, honey and other sugars that are claimed to be less unhealthy.

HFCS alarmism is just that: Alarmism.

The problem is not the composition of HFCS, it's that we in the western world are adding a hell of a lot more sugar to everything compared to 40-50 years ago.

But some claim that during the conversion of corn glucose to HFCS, a lot of contaminants end up in it, and explain some of its ill-effects to that.

Oddly enough, they don't seem able to actually back up those claims.

Then keep on consuming HFCS. I quickly googled for the lazy you and it's not too hard to find stuff on the subject like [0]. I am personally staying away from all sugars except those naturally found in fruits and honey.

[0]: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01...

That's production faults, not inherent to HFCS.

I try to stay away from added sugars too, but there is no reason to demonize HFCS specifically.

I didn't say contamination is specific to HFCS, but any large-scale low-cost process is prone to contamination. There was another point that the fructose part in HFCS is less stable than in table sugar, and affects the gut worse in some ways.