Bubblegum and Fructose

"Can I have this gum?"- a question my son keeps asking me. 

But the first or 2nd ingredient is always 

corn syrup. So when Grandma handed 

me new bubbleum to check the label I 

was surprised. Hfcs was missing and 

instead ingredient no. 2 was: Gluclose 

Syrup- something I haven't seen in any 

other label I've read. So what is this? 

Does it have fructose? 

Here is what I 

found:

The term "glucose-fructose syrup" is a European thing, where the EU regulates the amount of fructose in things.  "Glucose-fructose syrup"  has more glucose than fructose, where most HFCS is 55% fructose.  They'd have to call that "fructose-glucose syrup". It is usually manufactured in the same way as HFCS, by taking glucose syrup (aka corn syrup) and processing it to convert some of the glucose into fructose.  There are other ways of making it, but this one is common because it's cheap. So it's very similar to HFCS, but not quite the same.  The exact amount of fructose isn't clear from the label, and it could be much lower than HFCS, or it could be nearly identical. So it looks like the new gum is out. Not worth a belly ache.