Due to the US Government's push toward cheap and boundless corn, it has managed to squeeze its way into almost everything we eat. Whether it is ketchup, salad dressing, soft drinks, or cookies its got corn in it. In fact, if you were to submit a strand of hair to a scientist with the right machine they would probably see that over 50% of the carbon forming the hair was from corn. Thats a pretty scary thought since over in Europe the average is around 5%.. and you know how attractive Europeans are compared to Americans.. So my new quest now is to find food that is not corn based.. which is probably near impossible living on a student budget but I will try my best to at least reduce my dependence on corn.
So for now that means avoiding :
ketchup without High Fructose Corn Syrup
corn based chips
soft drinks
almost any kind of fast food item
and the list goes on...
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Good luck! I've been trying to avoid many corn-based products for about six months now and it is very, very hard. But Whole Foods has a very good house ketchup that has no high fructose corn syrup in it, and it's under $2/bottle.
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