At least some products are making an effort to not use the stuff -- like Heinz' "Simply Heinz" brand of ketchup.

I honestly don't know what to believe when it comes to HFCS, since both sides are equally logical to my brain. So I tend to err on this side of caution and stay away from it. It is amazing, though, how many products it is actually in -- even things you don't expect to find it in. (Diet Snapple, for example.)

I bought a pint of milk the other day at a gas station just for a fix. The label on this milk proclaimed "Contains no high fructose corn syrup!". I was confused about when cows installed a nozzle on (next to?) the udder that distributes high fructose corn syrup as the cow is being milked.

I've also seen it in loaves of bread fer chrissakes! Why is it in bread? And ice cream? And prepackaged apple slices? And a ton of other products that really should only have a handful of ingredients in them?

Corn syrup (and corn in general) is in too many of the products we buy. I don't think the corn industry really needs any of that subsidy money any more as surely they've achieved market saturation by now.

/in before 'only buy natural ingredients and make from scratch because everyone has that time and money, hurr durr'?

Um, dear Subliterate and darling Adminidiot who greened this: TFA article has NOTHING to do with HFCS. It's about the fact that most of the honey being sold in our stores comes from China, which is in deep doo-doo for selling contaminated honey. To avoid more trouble they have been filtering their honey to eliminate all pollen which means they can pass it off as coming from different countries.

Jaysus.

BurnShrike: I have to say that this saddens, but doesn't surprise me.

I love honey, and I've thought about getting myself an apiary to keep my own bees. Maybe it's time I finally did it.

Apes make honey? I had no idea..

Is it legal to label ultrafiltered ex-honey "refined bee vomit"?

earthworm2.0: I dnrtfa, but I already knew this.

Sadly, this.

Counterfeit honey is all the rage right now.

Although I like to laugh at the people buying agave syrup that is higher in fructose than high fructose corn syrup.

I guess you should just buy local honey.

PanicMan: ginandbacon: Um, dear Subliterate and darling Adminidiot who greened this: TFA article has NOTHING to do with HFCS. It's about the fact that most of the honey being sold in our stores comes from China, which is in deep doo-doo for selling contaminated honey. To avoid more trouble they have been filtering their honey to eliminate all pollen which means they can pass it off as coming from different countries.

Jaysus.

The sad part is OMG CHINA threads do about as many posts as OMG HFCS. I don't know why they went this route.

Too hungover to RTFA?

Oh, and by the by, honey typically contains around 38% fructose. Link (new window)

The article was mostly about pollen and steeped heavily in a potential conspiracy to hide the real country of origin a honey really comes from. HFCS is mentioned but not the focus.

But I get rather skeptical anytime an article goes out of its way to throw the FDA under the bus. I'm not saying I blindly trust the FDA, but experience has led me to trust them more than most internet sources. (See also "Dr Oz versus the FDA" where Oz said "OMG Apple Juice Not Inspected" and the FDA issued a press release, "Like hell we don't. Also, your testing is all wrong. Noob." [Paraphrased])

The FDA doesn't seem to mess around much - if they think something's harmful they're probably all over it; conversely, if there's no real science that says something's bad, they're probably not giving a crap.

Ted Haggard's Poop-Stained Replicock: browntimmy: Holy shiat, it's honey. Why the hell does it have to be that complicated?

But I have condwrsd why it is sometimes so cheep. Like Food Lion brand honey - is that real from the beas?