[lit-ideas] Re: fill in the blank...CLAWKI

  • From: "Julie Krueger" <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 21:57:55 -0500

If HFCS were banned here, the groceries would be bare.  The only way to
avoid it in all its various manifestations (and equally unhealthy
substitutes) is to buy organic at high prices and spend hours reading
labels.

Julie Krueger

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Judith Evans
<judith.evans001@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> It (a UK or EU ban) may be an American urban legend; my source was
> American. Rather, perhaps, it's rare.  It may be that HFCS is, like trans
> fats, discouraged/unpopular (supermarkets here are phasing out trans fats)
>
> Judy Evans, Cardiff
>
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>
>> On Aug 8, 2008, at 11:58 AM, Judith Evans wrote:
>>
>>  I thought HFCS was banned here, David.  But I hardly ever eat jam,  so
>>> don't know what gets put in  it these days.
>>>
>>>  If a ban has gone into effect, Wikipedia hasn't heard:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_fructose_corn_syrup
>>
>> Here's another good reason to avoid jam today:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGJT9XfM2y0
>>
>> David Ritchie,
>> Portland, Oregon
>>
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