You know those commercials that are now on TV saying “what’s the big deal about high fructose corn syrup?” Well, here’s your answer. While I can’t say that my family is HFCS-free (we do indulge in sodas when we eat out and I bought some chocolate syrup last night for my ice cream), we do our best. I read the labels of sandwich bread, yogurts, you name it. I won’t buy it if it has HFCS at least 90 percent of the time.
What’s sad about the list of brands posted in this very comprehensive report by the Health Observatory, is that I confidently fed my family many of these products through the years. Indeed, my husband is still an avid Coca-Cola Classic fan and I don’t know how I’m going to get him to quit smoking and quit drinking Coke too!
Here’s the list of brands:
7-Up Beverage
A & W Root Beer Beverage
Aunt Jemima Original Syrup Syrup
Campbell’s Tomato Soup Soup
Coca-Cola Classic Beverage
Dr. Pepper Beverage
Fanta Orange Beverage
Hawaiian Punch Fruit Juicy Red Beverage
Heinz Hotdog Relish Condiment
Heinz Tomato Ketchup Condiment
Hershey’s Caramel Syrup Syrup
Hershey’s Chocolate Syrup Syrup
Hershey’s Strawberry Syrup Syrup
Hi-C Wild Cherry Beverage
Hunt’s Tomato Ketchup Condiment
Hy-Top Syrup Syrup
Jack Daniel’s Barbecue Sauce (Heinz) Condiment
Jell-O Strawberry Snack
Kemps Fat Free Chocolate Milk Dairy
Kool-Aid Bursts Tropical Punch Beverage
Kool-Aid Cherry Jammers Beverage
Kraft Original Barbecue Sauce Condiment
Land O’ Lakes Chocolate Milk Dairy
Lipton Green Tea Beverage
Manwich Bold Sloppy Joe Entrée
Market Pantry Applesauce Snack
Market Pantry Cranberry Sauce Condiment
Market Pantry Grape Jelly Jelly
Market Pantry Ice Pops Dessert
Market Pantry Thousand Island Dressing Dressing
Market Pantry Tomato Soup Soup
Minute Maid Berry Punch Beverage
Mott’s Applesauce Snack
Mrs. Butterworth Original Syrup Syrup
Nesquik Chocolate Milk Dairy
Nesquik Strawberry Milk Dairy
NOS High Performance Energy Drink Beverage
Nutri-Grain Strawberry Cereal Bars Snack
Ocean Spray Cranberry Sauce Condiment
Pepsi Beverage
Pop-Tarts Frosted Blueberry Snack
Powerade Orange Beverage
Quaker Oatmeal to Go Snack
Smucker’s Strawberry Jelly Jelly
Smucker’s Strawberry Syrup Syrup
Snapple Peach Iced Tea Beverage
Sunny-D Beverage
Tropicana Twister Cherry Berry Blast Beverage
Welch’s Grape Jelly Jelly
Wish-Bone Thousand Island Dressing Dressing
Wish-Bone Western Sweet & Smooth Dressing Dressing
Wyler’s Italian Ices Dessert
Yoo-hoo Chocolate Drink Beverage
Yoplait Strawberry Yogurt Dairy
Zoo Juice Orange
I recommend we start writing to our favorite manufacturers and threaten to not buy their products anymore. If we won’t let our kids play with toys made with lead – how can we reconcile mercury in their food?
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