Traders Joe's Vintage Root Beer has no high-fructose corn syrup and it is awesome! I saw it in the store the other day and had to try it. Not only is it sweetened with cane sugar instead of HFCS, the other ingredients are actually recognizable and high-quality as well! It is *so* refreshing to look at an ingredients list and see that the makers of the product actually thought, 'what ingredients can we combine to make this a truly tasty, quality, satisfying product'? Instead of looking at a label and it seeming like they were thinking 'what chemicals can we combine, that are cheap as possible, that will kind of make this taste ok, and how can we disguise some of the more insidious ones'? Actual pride in the product you manufacture? … [Read more...]

 I'm adding Pepsi Throwback and Mountain Dew Throwback to the list of products with no high-fructose corn syrup, because it was suggested by a reader. I hadn't, before, because they were out as "limited editions." But now they seem to be back on a more permanent basis. ~Sherry - Your No High-Fructose Corn Syrup Blogger … [Read more...]