Feb 15 2009

Sales of HFCS-free foods zoom up

The bad press about high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is having an effect.  According to figures assembled by Phil Lempert, the Supermarket Guru, sales of products bearing “HFCS-Free” labels almost reached a billion dollars last year.  Fruit drinks are the biggest HFCS-free category, but HFCS-free yogurts, vegetable juices, and breads are the fastest growing. Lempert doesn’t say what companies are using instead of HFCS.  If it’s sucrose, it won’t be much of an improvement.  But no wonder the Corn Refiners think they need a hefty public relations campaign.

March 21 update: This trend is a front-page story in the New York Times.

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[...] UPDATE: This excerpt from Marion Nestle’s blog offers insight to the question why Pepsi is venturing to make soda with real sugar outside of Jewish holidays: Sales of HFCS-free foods zoom up [...]

  • David Hardingham
  • May 20, 2011
  • 9:05 pm

Not surpising as it been proven HFCS robs copper iron and magnesium from our bodys is digested in the liver not the stomic and has been linked by a goverment lab to casing type two diabeties and many even be linked to the huge rise in ADD as copper is a building block of the brain and brains are not finished till the ages of about 19-22

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