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askye at 04:04pm on 26/05/2008
askye at 04:04pm on 26/05/2008I'm trying to cut back on HFCS, I picked a bbq sauce at the grocery store that's only okay because it was literally the only one with out Corn Syrup or HFCS. I picked a salad dressing that's only okay because again, only one the flavor I wanted with no HFCS.
I forgot to read the label of my ice cream. I don't normally get ice cream,b ut I thought I would as a treat. I ended up getting 2 pints of Blue Bell, once Peaches and Homemade Vanilla and the other Chocolate Chip. I like Blue Bell.
But it has HFCS in it! And artificial flavors and corn syrup. next time more label reading. The only contact for the compnay seems to be snail mail too.
I forgot to read the label of my ice cream. I don't normally get ice cream,b ut I thought I would as a treat. I ended up getting 2 pints of Blue Bell, once Peaches and Homemade Vanilla and the other Chocolate Chip. I like Blue Bell.
But it has HFCS in it! And artificial flavors and corn syrup. next time more label reading. The only contact for the compnay seems to be snail mail too.
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Corn, despite what the industry will tell you when faced with possible use of their high-dollar food crop for vehicle fuel, is cheap and easy to grow, fairly simple and cheap to process. The chemical tweaking that turns corn syrup--used for decades as the base for baby formulas and in basic healthy recipes--into unhealthy High Fructose Corn Syrup is a marketing ploy, a way to make people use more and buy more.
And in the last few years, the prepared foods industry is adding it to everything, even things that formerly did not require sweetening. We're attuning our palates to crave the sweet, even more than before.
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BTW, it's also in diet Orange Crush. WTF?