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Children of the corn

Posted on August 28th, 2009 by steve


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Does High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) have to be in everything? Not just sodas, but meat products, bread, soups – corn flakes, ketchup, pickles (pickles?? wtf?), applesauce, ice cream, salad dressings  . . .

Even Kentucky Fried Chicken has a honey flavored sauce (pictured). Because just plain honey didn’t quite work. It really needed some tinkering.

Here’s some details about what we eat in the United States. And (update!) even more detail here. Powerful lobby them corn people are. Make Soylent Green seem so trite.


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tags: culinary, thoughts // 2 comments  . . .   

2 Responses to “Children of the corn”

  1. Cynthia1770 // Aug 29, 2009 at 9:08 am

    Hi,
    My google alert for HFCS picked up your post.
    Yep, HFCS is in just about everything. However,
    slowly manufacturers are taking the HFCS out.
    Latest to switch: Snapple and Starbucks.
    You might read my article in
    Women’sInternationalNews.com under “Health and
    Nutrition”. In the meantime, ditch HFCS especially
    HFCS–55 which is used to sweeten beverages.
    Try StopHFCS.com for an extensive list of HFCS-free
    foods. To your health.

  2. steve // Aug 29, 2009 at 10:38 am

    Thanks Cynthia!

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