Tastes Like Food

Have your read Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma and been amazed and frightened to learn how corn products seem to be everywhere? Have you been following a health-oriented goal to cut back on refined sugars and discovered how challenging that goal is since high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) appears to be in nearly every pre-packaged food?

Promo image for documentary film King Corn

The public is concerned we’re consuming too much HFCS, and in response food and drink manufacturers, including giants Kraft and Pepsi, are cutting it out of numerous products, and advertising it as HFCS free. (Been to Starbucks lately and seen how they’re advertising that their food case is HFCS free?)

Well, guess what? Now the corn industry is telling us it’s not really bad for us in their latest round of advertising targeted at moms. Read the full article: Corn Refiners Fight Back as Kraft, Pepsi Tout Revamped Products

Based on the headline to this post, you’ll probably know my point of view. Thank goodness many consumers are telling food companies they want HFCS out! I’m not surprised corn is fighting back. I make my choices as often as I can to avoid products with HFCS.

Bonus tip: want to learn more about corn and HFCS? Check out the not so well-known (yet) documentary King Corn, all about America’s favorite subsidized crop.