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Hello - Here are some new additions to The No High-Fructose Corn Syrup List: Bread With No High-Fructose Corn Syrup Open Nature Bread (also contains no trans fat) Ezekiel breads/English muffins Sara Lee Soft and Smooth 100% Whole Wheat Tandoori Roti/Naan breads Yogurt With No High-Fructose Corn Syrup Faye Greek Yogurt – 2% or 0% Mountain High lowfat Yogurt (available at Costco) Enjoy! -Sherry, Your High-Fructose Corn Syrup Blogger … [Read more...]
I redesigned the site to make it more attractive and easier to navigate! Let me know what you think in comments below, please. I aim to please! The biggest change is a link to the list right at the very top of every page! And the categories and other parts of the site are more obvious and easier to find. Enjoy the new site! -Sherry, Your High-Fructose Corn Syrup Blogger … [Read more...]
I'm getting really irritated by food labelling these days. It's getting harder and harder to figure out what is in the products I want to buy. I picked up a bottle of 'Simply Lemonade' at the store and looked at the list of ingredients last week. One of the ingredients listed was 'natural sugar'. That tells me nothing. According to the FDA, "It cannot be said that high-fructose corn syrup is not natural." They did this in response to the Corn Refiners Association petitioning them to allow high-fructose corn syrup to be determined 'natural' by the FDA. Now, the FDA did not come out with a determination on whether HFCS is natural or not. They simply made that aggravating statement. That statement means that products can … [Read more...]
Funny video I found while looking for more information on the CRA changing the name of high-fructose corn syrup to just "corn sugar." Does a pretty good job of explaining it and is also entertaining. -Sherry Your High-Fructose Corn Syrup Blogger … [Read more...]
Today we have several really good additions to the list that readers sent in. The first item for today's additions to the no high-fructose corn syrup list is Simple Harvest granola bars by Quaker. Apparently they aren't available everywhere, but our reader has had luck finding them at QFC. He also says that bread from the Seattle Baking Company has no HFCS. Black Swan wrote in and said that they just introduced 2 new BBQ sauces with no corn syrup. There are two varieties: Clean Gourmet Savory Original and Sweet Cognac sauces. Another reader tells us that Abita, the same company that makes the beer, also makes a no-hfcs root beer. It's made with Louisiana cane sugar. It's not distributed everywhere, but you can check for … [Read more...]
A reader sent in a really good observation, which is to watch for ice creams which contain candy pieces. The ice cream itself may not contain high-fructose corn syrup, but the candy pieces may contain HFCS. I would think this would count, also, for cookie, cake and brownie pieces in the ice cream. … [Read more...]
Someone commented recently about all the candy she found with no high-fructose corn syrup in it (thank you!) I haven't had time to verify all of them but the one I did look at was Hershey's Kisses - no hfcs of any kind! I say that that way because sometime HFCS is labelled as "modified food starch," so it can be difficult to tell. I'm not surprised there is no HFCS in Hershey's Kisses, as they are not chewy or gummy in texture. In fact, adding hfcs would probably ruin the texture in the case of that product because of its properties. And not all Hershey products are free of HFCS, as Hershey's Chocolate Syrup lists "highp-fructose corn syrup" as its first ingredient! So be sure to check each different type of candy/Halloween candy … [Read more...]
A lot of people ask me the difference between corn syrup and high-fructose corn syrup and whether they are the same thing, so I thought I would write a quick blog post about it. They are not the same thing at all. And to make things even more confusing, the name "corn sugar" is about to be thrown into the mix. So here is a quick breakdown of each of them. Corn Syrup: Corn syrup is extracted from corn starch and is made into glucose. Some recipes call for corn syrup as a sweetener and it is sold in grocery stores, often under the brand name Karo. High-Fructose Corn Syrup: HFCS goes through additional processing. Three different types of enzymes are added, one after the other, to change the corn starch into first glucose … [Read more...]
Today I am happy to add Hunt's Ketchup and Oroweat breads. All of the Oroweat packages I have seen now say "no high fructose corn syrup" on them, but I could find nothing on their site that says that none of their products contain it. So I would still look for verification when choosing a particular product. It's good to have a lot more choices, though, when choosing bread without hfcs! Your no-high fructose corn syrup blogger, Sherry … [Read more...]
Sierra Mist has been re-branded as Sierra Mist Natural and is made with sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup. I've read a couple of reviews that say it is definitely better - crisper and not so gummy/syrupy. Has anyone tried this? I will be on the lookout for it. Your No High-Fructose Corn Syrup blogger, Sherry … [Read more...]
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