High Fructose Corn Syrup_A Year of Avoidence

High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) – comprises any of a group of corn syrups that has undergone enzymatic processing to convert its glucose into fructose and has then been mixed with pure corn syrup (100% glucose) to produce a desired sweetness. In the United States, HFCS is typically used as a sugar substitute and is ubiquitous in processed foods and beverages.

The most widely used varieties of high-fructose corn syrup are: HFCS 55 (mostly used in soft drinks), approximately 55% fructose and 45% glucose; and HFCS 42 (used in many foods and baked goods), approximately 42% fructose and 58% glucose. HFCS-90, approximately 90% fructose and 10% glucose, is used in small quantities for specialty applications, but primarily is used to blend with HFCS 42 to make HFCS 55.

Per relative sweetness, HFCS 55 is comparable to table sugar (sucrose), a disaccharide of fructose and glucose. That makes it useful to food manufacturers as a substitute for sucrose in soft drinks and processed foods. HFCS 90 is sweeter than sucrose; HFCS 42 is less sweet than sucrose.

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

awash

9:30p, After watching 'The Cove' tonight, a documentary on the slaughter of dolphins, I think of what it will take to have items containing HFCS removed from the menus of all children and eliminated from adults temptations. Will take drastic devotion to fight a huge industry. Give me the funding and I will go for it. Until then I will succeed on my own path.

I have received no mails in return to my inquiries as of yet. Tonight I posted to Rhebs Candies. Man I hope they give my inquiry (Can you please forward me a list of candies that contain HFCS. This is a personal inquiry due to a recent dietary restriction?) a big negative. Ciocci Margie is the supplier of this goodness for many a holiday and that would be a blow to my own consumption needs at the celebration times the candies are sent.

I wonder if this becomes an instance of greater exposure how many institution will baltently lie to your face in reguards to the inclusion of HFCS in our food. People are rutheless when their business is on the line. Bigger Better Faster More. Everyone is suspect and everyone is suspecting. Makes it not really fun. The only one not lying about the food they serve you is you from teh food you grow yourself. This we will do more of in summer 2010. We did have a go at our first garden last summer. Yeilded many a vegetble and mmmmmm the savorie taste of anythign fresh off the vine that was grown with no pesticides or chemicals. For the price of a seed and some water (and an 8' deer fence) we are eating pure. Jiffy peanut butter is still alive in my menu, thank god. Interestingly i have not run into a new addition in the past day ... I expected the HFCS to be in everything i touched but alas I will have to search. I think Chinese food is out for the year, not for lack of asking but after watching the cultural differences in how I might expect a questiosn to be answered from Asia and how it was in the cove ... perhpas they will just lie. At this point in am only, as stated above, suspecting. I think throughout the year I will become more aggressive in my stance and interactions.

In all things successful I find that it really hinges on finding the sole person that is true to themselves to come forward and make a difference. Not to fight for it from the bottom like a greasy wheel but to be in power and stand tall. So. Why not achieve power expressing democratic ideals and instill them with republican authority. Seems to be the only way things are getting done. Its not a flip flop ... its the poor way the system is set up. The general consensus is too large to make sound collective decisions ... therefore humans are forced to deceive. But that trust enroute is the hardest. Will they make the right decisions in the end. True.

The HFCS 42.90.55 Journal has been purchased. Its a 'Whitelines' brand out of Sweden, purchased at teh Bookstore Plus of all places in Lake Placid. Identifiable and unique. Not overly stated but understood. Designed but not a redesign. This journal will record the clif notes of my HFCS journey. I think of purchasing this in my rural existance and recall the quote of a man in Lake Clear who's new years resolution was to quit smoking. He stated that he had tried three times prior but it tough living up here and some times you gotta do what you gotta do. Apparently he hasent seen teh Whitelines brand and does not realize that Sweden iscloser than he thinks ... that and the real tough part of living in the Adirondacks is living surrounded by the mentality that its tough livign up here. If everyone stopped looking to big dad for the answeres and created them themselves ... well we would not be having this conversation as every inhabitated spot on this earh is successful only as far is the people who live there make it.

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