Have any of you seen the latest commercial endorsing high fructose corn syrup? SNL did a parody that was pretty funny, but the message remains.
As Michael Pollan stated in his book "Food Rules," avoiding high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is beneficial because it means you're basically avoiding highly refined foods (because HFCS is in MOST processed foods) and foods with a high sugar content.
In this book, he says it isn't... "any worse for you than sugar, but because it is, like many of the other unfamiliar ingredients in packaged foods, a reliable marker for a food product that has been highly processed. Also, high-fructose corn syrup is being added to hundreds of foods that have not traditionally been sweetened – breads, condiments, and many snack foods – so if you avoid products that contain it, you will cut down on your sugar intake.
It just doesn't sit well with me that a lot of our food supply has an artificial ingredient in it, even though it's from corn, to "soup" it up. What's the point? Why not put government subsidies toward fresh food? Wow. That's the most "political" I think I've ever been in a post. What's your view on the matter?
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