{"id":13,"date":"2005-01-20T10:54:38","date_gmt":"2005-01-20T16:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=13"},"modified":"2005-01-20T10:54:38","modified_gmt":"2005-01-20T16:54:38","slug":"high-fructose-blog-syrup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/01\/20\/high-fructose-blog-syrup\/","title":{"rendered":"High Fructose Blog Syrup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently, I'm not the only one who's concerned that High Fructose Corn Syrup is in everything<\/a> nowadays. I remember a time when the ingredients on a can of coke were water, sugar and battery acid, but some time ago they sneakily replaced sugar with High Fructose Corn Syrup. <\/p>\n

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I guess I was mostly worried when I discovered that sugar had been replaced with corn syrup in my favourite soft drink without my knowledge, like it was some secret conspiracy. But as I began to focus on ingredients of products I buy more and more I became alarmed at how widespread it is. It's not just used in soft drinks, candy bars and the like. It's used as a sweetener in fruit juices, pasta sauces, beer and bread for criminy's sake!<\/p>\n

After reading the above article (and others like it, like this one<\/a> and this one<\/a> and this one<\/a> and this one<\/a>), I believe that High Fructose Corn Syrup (or HFCS for Those That Love Acronyms, or TTLA) is worse for us than cane or beet sugar, despite the fact that the FDA has ruled HFCS \"safe\"<\/a>. Like any good conspiracy theory, it makes me wonder about some of the health problems across North America. Of course our sedentary, desk-jockey lifestyle has more to do with that, but surely HFCS and other processed foods aren't helping.<\/p>\n

I really became interested in this when our babies were born, as it is natural for a parent to feel protective about their children. Since making this realization I've been carefully analyzing ingredients and trying to shop at \"Whole Foods\" stores for jarred baby foods, teething biscuits and crackers.<\/p>\n

So next time you're shopping for groveries, take a look at the ingredients, you may be surprised at the prevalence of HFCS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apparently, I’m not the only one who’s concerned that High Fructose Corn Syrup is in everything nowadays. I remember a time when the ingredients on a can of coke were water, sugar and battery acid, but some time ago they sneakily replaced sugar with High Fructose Corn Syrup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}