Ten food items you might be surprised to learn contain HFCS! So just how much high fructose corn syrup are you consuming, anyway? If you regularly dine out or eat processed foods, the chances are high you’re taking in more than you might have ever imagined. Back in the 1980s, when HFCS was a fairly new food ingredient, it was being touted as “better use of an abundant homegrown crop” in a trade publication ad for Cargill headlined “How the newest ingredient in soda pop helps sweeten the pot for corn growers.” As the ad explained it, a $90 million expansion of the company’s facilities would, when completed, give it “a total capacity of 1.3 billion gallons of fructose a year … enough to fill a trainload that would stretch 154 miles.” Which is an awful lot of fructose – the very component that the Corn Refiners Association (CRA) has more recently tried to downplay in advertising claiming that HFCS is not really all that high in fructose after all... Read the full blog here: foodidentitytheft/ten-food-items-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-contain-hfcs/#sthash.qhekRxdW.dpuf #remember to use your #HashTags #LOL
Posted on: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:58:38 +0000
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