I don't know. It seems that Breyer's Vanilla and Strawberry are still okay.
Posted on 12/02/2014 11:45:39 AM PST by Olog-hai
Hershey is looking at replacing the high-fructose corn syrup in some of its products with sugar.
Will Papa, chief research and development officer at The Hershey Co., told The Associated Press the company uses a mix of sugar and high-fructose corn syrup in its products but that it is “moving more toward sugar.”
“We take into account what consumers want. And consumers are telling us between the two, they prefer sugar,” Papa said.
Moving toward sugar would make Hershey a high-profile example of the move away from high-fructose corn syrup in the food industry. …
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Yes
Corn is several times the price it was just a decade ago, thanks to mandated Ethanol requirements.
I call BS, this is all about cost, which is why they went from sugar to corn syrup in the first place.
True, but why not take the marketing advantage and tell the consumer it’s all about them?
“I call BS, this is all about cost, which is why they went from sugar to corn syrup in the first place.”
Costs are why Hershey went to Messico, IIRC.
If I have to eat it, I prefer sugar anyway. Up until I tried Mexican Cokes made with sugar instead of corn syrup, I believed what I read about there being no difference between the two. Now I know that there is.
I suspect that the relative cost of sugar to HFCS has significantly changed. Sugar is a complex business, to say the least, and its price has substantially dropped.
http://www.aei.org/publication/20-years-in-nafta-finally-sours-the-us-sugar-program/
However, as far as Hershey is concerned, the flip side to this situation is cocoa and cocoa butter, which has been tightening as a market for decades now.
“this is all about cost”
Of course, but if you can con a demonstrably gullible segment of the population into thinking you did it to please them, then why not?
The situation is improving. Reeses Peanut Butter Cups and some (not all) Russell Stowe candies have removed the poison. There are some foreign candies that use real sugar. Ice Cream is still just about impossible.
Be assured, once corporate America removes HFCS, they'll find something equally disgusting to poison us with.
My read on it is that since our neighbors don’t have to contend with the insane sugar tariffs that we have in this country, all of your future Hershey Bars will be coming from Mexico.
Thank you....gotta’ find some of that Breyer’s Vanilla. <^..^>
Thanks for the post. On a side note, just what is “natural flavor”? You know arsenic is “natural”, that is, a substance found in nature.
I actually paid a visit to The Creamery last summer.
Good thing I didn’t go to Penn State, I would have gained 60 pounds there.
You can have it for breakfast, lunch and dinner in the commissary.
I hope people don’t think this will somehow have it healthier because sugar will do the same thing as HFCS, only less efficiently. The body processes it the same. The human body is designed to process fats and oils but not sugars other than in fruits, grains and vegetables. The price will go up and people will still be fat because they eat too much sugar and carbs.
Soft drink companies need to go back to real sugar too, I bet obesity in the country would decline if they did
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