Corn Syrup Use Drops 11%. Consumers Choose Sugar

Associated Content ^ | June 3rd, 2010 | Sherry Tomfeld

[stillafreemind]

Things are changing for corn syrup. Hunt's and Snapple are just 2 of the companies who have decided to listen to consumers' wants and use sugar instead of corn syrup. More and more companies are starting to jump on the no corn syrup band wagon and it is showing up in the use of corn syrup dropping 11% . The use of sugar has risen approx. 7%.

[oprahstheantichrist]

Gatorade just switched also. No HFCS.

[kaylar]

My local Wal Greens is selling “Mexican Coca Cola” (and that’s exactly how they advertise it) at .99c apiece for a regular small-sized glass bottle. I checked out the ingredients label and it listed sugar not HFCS. Didn’t buy any as I am trying not to drink sodas at all, but memories of how good Coke was prior to about 1995-1996, when I noticed it always “tasted nasty”, are preying on me...

[GovernmentShrinker]

High fructose corn syrup, as the name suggests, has a much higher fructose content. It’s a mixture of regular corn syrup and corn syrup that has had the glucose component converted to fructose. As with so many bad things, the great expansion in the use of high fructose corn syrup is the result of government meddling, not free market processes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-fructose_corn_syrup
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_syrup

[goodwithagun]

We don’t buy anything with MSG, HFCS, hydrogenated oils, or partially hydrogenated oils. I don’t think this is liberal phooey, I think it is very conservative. We buy food with very few ingredients and make a majority of what we eat. Our food bill is low and we are eating healthfully.

[Hoodlum91]

Great! One of the reasons we joined Costco was to get Mexican (cane sugar) Coke.

It definitely has been easier finding no HFCS alternatives in the past year or so. Hope more go that way.

[PeteePie]

I’ve found Coke, 16 oz, 8 pack, glass bottles in the ethnic food isle at the warehouse grocery. The labeling is Spanish but is made with sugar and not corn syrup. Ahhh. The pause that refreshes!!

[relictele]

Corn products poured into mouths and automobile gas tanks, both with deleterious effects.

It’s amazing how this nonsense has spread to every corner of our society. Midwest states like to boast about being the breadbasket but their politicians have brought shame upon the farmers and themselves with the corn syrup/ethanol debacle.

[Thermalseeker]

I haven't been able to drink a Pepsi since they switched over.

I have it on good authority from a member of the Wooddruff family that the New Coke/Old Coke thing was done to disguise the switch from cane sugar to corn syrup. You can still get Coke made with cane sugar around Passover in Jewish communities, though. Apparently, Rabbis won't bless Coke made with corn syrup.......

[Drew68]

The problem I’ve found is that it is in everything!

Actually, it's not. You just have to be label conscious. I avoid HFCS very successfully by reading the labels. It's not too difficult. Occasionally, I have to choose organic products but there's a lot of non-organics that have sugar. Fortunately, as this article attests to, many companies are wising up and returning to sugar.

[hoosierham]

Glass doesn't impart flavor in the form of leached chemicals to food or drink ,unlike plastic.

I agree that boken glass bottles are a hazard.

[US Navy Vet]

The “corn” that is produced now is SO “hybrided” that what benefits are gained are dubious at best. Anyone wonder why quite a few countries will not allow our hybrid products into thier countries. Monsanto, Pioneer Hy-Bred and ADM run and own Iowa.

[Drew68]

One of the reasons we joined Costco was to get Mexican (cane sugar) Coke.

You've got to read those labels too these days. I'm starting to see here in SoCal Mexican Coke labeled "high fructose corn syrup and/or sugar."

[elc]

I hadn’t realized that about Gatorade. That makes me happy. Sometimes, when my girls are sick, I like to let them have some Gatorade. But HFCS makes my 4 year old crazy.

I hate how hard you have to look at labels now to find stuff without HFCS. Think you’re getting healthy yogurt? Nope. Not unless you are getting the organic kind (which I do for my girls). Healthy bread? Really gotta search for some with no HFCS.

I spent 10 minutes the other week going through all the boxes of frozen pancakes trying to find the one I had once found that had no HFCS. I gave up.

[CT-Freeper]

Our local grocery stores sell the “Made in Mexico” Coca-Cola, which is made with real sugar. I find it tastes much, much better than American-made Coke, and buy that whenever I can.

Sadly, it does cost a little more, but it comes in the old-fashioned glass bottles, which you don't see that much anymore.

[glorgau]

YEp, this is one more thing I’m reading on food ingredient lists:

If it says “High Fructose corn syrup”, or “Partially hydrogenated”, it has a high probability of not going in the shopping cart.

[Dr. Sivana]

When will Snapple switch over to plastic bottles as opposed to glass?

You can get some types of Snapple in skinny plastic bottles (and cans) at supermarkets and some convenience stores. The green tea especially is often sold this way. As someone who has drunk Snapple from before the time that Rush Limbaugh endorsed it, when they seemed to have 50 flavors, I can tell you that when you are on the go, nothing beats a glass wide mouth for flavor and ease of drinking.

Snapple positions itself as a premium beverage, and they have ALWAYS done better as an impulse gas station purchase. The glass bottle is part of that presentation. I always throw my bottles away properly.

[Paved Paradise]

Jews cannot eat anything made with chametz during this period - chametz = certain grains (including corn).

[CARDINALRULES]

Karo corn syrup has it’s place - namely in pecan pies!

[Oshkalaboomboom]

In my area there is a big advertising campaign saying that corn syrup is no different than sugar. Guess it isn’t working.

[Paved Paradise]

And I hate plastic. LOL. I hate that you can’t find anything in glass bottles. I’ll take my chances with broken glass any day. I just don’t trust plastic - no matter what they say.