AVOID! High Fructose Corn Syrup Renamed “Fructose”, Sold as Natural Sweetener!

Consumers are really getting that the quality of our food affects our waistline and our health. Now High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) can be sold in groceries as a natural sweetener! Healthy Solution: Natural zero glycemic sweeteners. Beware of: ‘fructose’, ‘fructose syrup’ and ‘HFCS-90‘. Source: Herbalhouse.com. As consumers become much smarter we are making healthier food choices. Every food company is smearing 100% natural on every box of anything regardless of what’s inside the box. Now we need to know the new sneaky name to know whether or not we are consuming High Fructose Corn Syrup or not.  Obviously the best way to avoid this mess is to buy from companies you really trust.

Big food companies are hiding ingredients they know we really don’t want to consume in their products. This time it’s the presence of a new version of high fructose corn syrup. But this is not the innocuous fructose that has sweetened the fruits humans have eaten since time began. This is a questionable ingredient with many names that could be causing all sorts of health problems.

The product is General Mills’ Vanilla Chex, an updated version of the Chex cereal sold in most conventional grocery and discount stores for many years. The front of the box clearly states that the product contains “no high fructose corn syrup” (HFCS), but turn it over to read the ingredient list and there it is – the new isolated fructose.

CRA explains:

 “A third product, HFCS-90, is sometimes used in natural and ‘light’ foods, where very little is needed to provide sweetness. Syrups with 90% fructose will not state high fructose corn syrup on the label [anymore], they will state ‘fructose’ or ‘fructose syrup’.”

And the way that they get away with this is fairly simple:

“Simply eliminating the high fructose corn syrup designation for the laboratory sweetener that’s nine-tenths fructose and calling it what it really is: fructose. And that’s how a processed-food product like Vanilla Chex that contains “fructose”, a substance that, according to the corn refiners, used to be called HFCS-90, can now declare itself to be high fructose corn syrup-free.”

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