Food Politics

I don’t see any benefit in taking a chemical that is energy intensive to make with the use of “synthetic fixing agents in the enzyme preparation”. My grandmother doesn’t know how to make it in her kitchen. Natural foods are not invented in a lab.

Wiki: In general, nature includes all phenomena independent of human intervention, and is defined over the complete range of length scales. HFCS isn’t of nature. It is of man, of processed food companies.

The goal of labeling the food/beverage as “natural” is just designed to make the food look healthier than it really is. Why would the FDA want to confuse the consume and promote corporate profit?

I agree too. The scary thing is, I was in Linens n Things the other day, and on the back of a children’s gummy product at the check-out line, the first ingredient listed was high fructose WHEAT syrup. I guess with rising corn prices, less corn on the makret because of the use of corn as ethanol, they’ve had to find other ways to make something similar to HFCS.

As a long-time fan of your books – I have told so many about ‘Food Politics’ – I am currently reading ‘What to Eat’ and was disappointed to see you source the Corn Refiners association to state the glucose/fructose % in HFCS – in all other instances you have been cautious in the use of a more highly processed ingredient over one less processed and are careful to cite research from sources other then the industry – why not in this case?
You do not even mention the controversy over how HFCS is metabolized – I agree the high sugar (of all kinds) content in so many products is important – but – somehow can’t think that anything as processed as HFCS may not have some other adverse effects and is best avoided. HFCS certainly is not a ‘natural’ sweetener…