Forums: September 2010 Kickstart Forum Archive: How sad.
Created on: 11/07/10 09:12 PM Views: 1283 Replies: 2
Madcat Joined: 09/07/10 Location: MICHIGAN!!!! Posts: 61	How sad. Posted Sunday, November 7, 2010 at 9:12 PM They have a commercial out introducing high fructose corn syrup as corn sugar. It states that it is the same as cane sugar. Forget the GMO part of it.
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mollyhorn Joined: 03/03/10 Location: Fort Worth, TX Posts: 582	RE: How sad. Posted Sunday, November 7, 2010 at 9:30 PM We can thank the FDA, food lobbyists and the Big Money conservatives for that one. It's depressing as hell. Molly Horn
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Bugsmom Joined: 09/13/10 Posts: 2072	RE: How sad. Posted Monday, November 8, 2010 at 9:07 AM On the bright side, look at all they had to go through because consumers stopped buying anything with HFCS in it. Big marketing campaigns, name change, etc. Getting the conversation started is half the battle and consumers voted with their wallets. People started reading labels and choosing based on what they saw there. That's all to the good. Folks get into habits and once the habit of checking labels and evaluating ingredients is there, it's hard to break. It's now a "selling point" to say something is made with "real sugar". The high sugar levels in general are a whole other issue but at least people are looking now. One big grocery chain up here has started a "simple" way to evaluate nutrition (for the busy folks who can't stop to read a label but need the info right in their face). They had a group of doctors and nutritionists evaluate common foods (cereals, sauces, produce, etc) and give it a number between 1 and 100. The higher the number, the better the nutritional value. Heavily sugared cereals get values under 30; fresh broccoli gets 100. --Deb
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