Corn Syrup Wants New Name for Same Nasty Substance 6.28K Brian Moylan 09/14/10 11:55AM Filed to: Semantics Semantics corn syrup Corn sugar Health food The Corn Refiners Association just applied to the Food and Drug Administration to change the name of corn syrup to "corn sugar." They hope people will think that's healthier. Yeah, because when we think of health food, we think "sugar."