Roger's View of the World, Love and Seafood Gumbo!
Seize the Day! Put no trust in the morrow! — Horace
My daughters do travel and when they do the bring something back for ol Dad and Mom. The truth is… They are very generous! I particularly enjoy cookbooks… Although translations are slow and at times laborious.
Karen is presenting in China
They are fans of Jenny Craig nutrition and they bring it with them everywhere! In the above, Karen has taken a package of Jenny Craig cereal into the Cathedral of Notre Dame.
I have found 2 products — so far — in Jenny Craig that contain High Fructose Corn Syrup… A definite bozo no no. If you don’t know anything about it look it up and try avoid the big corn spin doctors.
In any event, I would think the Nestlé’ would know better by now!
I found it in my Ranch dressing and my barbecue sauce! Where else is it??
Here is another in a series of articles I wrote for a local New Site!
Now, I really don’t know why Del Monte has a product that doesn’t have high fructose corn syrup while so many of their other products do, but let’s just say that this is a product I will use with ‘relish!’
In reading what some folks write about HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP in defending this ingredient. sounds a lot like the ‘warnings’ one saw on other products that started off saying “the surgeon general has determined…” Here’s what Del Monte has on their site:
“High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is a sweetener made from corn and can be found in numerous foods and beverages on grocery store shelves in the United States. High fructose corn syrup is composed of either 42 percent or 55 percent fructose, with the remaining sugars being primarily glucose and higher sugars. In terms of composition, high fructose corn syrup is nearly identical to table sugar. The American Medical Association stated in June 2008 that “…high fructose syrup does not appear to contribute to obesity more than other caloric sweeteners…” And, the American Dietetic Association (ADA) concluded in December 2008 that “No persuasive evidence supports the claim that high fructose corn syrup is a unique contributor to obesity.” The ADA also noted, “High fructose corn syrup … is nutritionally equivalent to sucrose. Both sweeteners contain the same number of calories (4 per gram) and consist of about equal parts of fructose and glucose. Once absorbed into the blood stream, the two sweeteners are indistinguishable.””
My wife wrote a blog a few years back that shed some light on the phenomenon. Although data can sometimes be correlational and correlation does not equal causation, I think this issue deserves a fair hearing and I for one will not buy anything knowingly that contains HFCS.
Maybe, Del Monte is putting a very small toe in the water to see how folks will react to having one of their minor brands live without HFCS … but to me it is a step in the right direction! What does HFCS really have to do with making a great relish??
I have been really shocked to see how many brands contain HFCS, everything from Margarita Mix (ouch!), to our Jenny Craig Chicken kits, to my Cherrios to many brands of Pickle Relish!
Check it out.
Laura and I have enjoyed the past five plus years or so on Jenny Craig. We lost a ton of weight in the first 10 months, then we began to follow their ‘maintenance program’ which — I believe — has been the key to a dieters long term success. It is clear that Jenny Craig is head and shoulders over the diet offerings as confirmed recently by a recent article in Consumer Reports. However, they won’t last long if they continue to put High Fructose Corn Syrup in their food… this is a red flag for me and many others … and there also some very disturbing research on this sweetener:
Okay, okay… the study was done on rats, but it would be somewhat ethically challenging to do this experiment on people. Imagine if you sent old great aunt Maude on an expensive diet program and she came back as a blimp, because unfortunately, she was the one fed on High-fructose corn syrup.
Jenny Craig, I am not asking for organic brown rice syrup — which I think is hype anyway, but the jury has already come back on this stuff and it isn’t good, High Fructose Corn Syrup has got to go.