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If you have the power will you ban high fructose corn syrup? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by LovelyA72@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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rt, will you ban it?

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[–] Nefara@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not as bad as all that, I've cut it out of my diet for about fifteen years. It involves A LOT of reading ingredient labels but for just about everything it's in, there is an alternative without. Sometimes it does come at a premium, though. In the past ten years or so a lot of food manufacturers realized there was a market for foods without it and often advertise it on the label (breads especially). With some things like soda, you can get real sugar, glass bottled sodas which are expensive, but another alternative is drinking water which you should be doing anyway.

[–] cloudpunk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I agree that you can avoid hitting the daily sugar thing (and avoid hfcs) by reading ingredients but I don't think many consumers do that. I certainly did not expect it find it in canned tomatoes and I use that in a lot of the recipes I found online. It makes sense why it's in there though if it's acting as a preservative. In fact, I'm going agree with a lot of folks here and just would like to send an end to corn subsidies.