Everything has corn syrup in it

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• janus2@lemmy.zip ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  and palm oil :(

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  • nieceandtows@programming.dev ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah I can find stuff I want without corn syrup way more easily than find stuff I want without palm oil.

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  • wesker@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m not in the loop about palm oil I guess.

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    • Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Rainforests are being destroyed to harvest it.

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• DupaCycki@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve tried a few products imported from the US. Mostly sweets or sweet drinks.

  It’s always the same three ingredients - sugar (of course, nothing American about it), high calorie corn syrup, and modified corn starch.

  The first sip of a Dr Pepper from the US tasted pretty good. So did the second. But by the half of the can I felt sick.

  Same with the sweets. I can usually eat a lot of sweets at a time, probably a lot more than I should, but I had to stop in the middle of a 100g pack, because it was making me physically unwell.

  I cannot imagine eating (or trying to) anything like this more often than once every 6 months. I’m sorry that Americans are being actively poisoned.

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The sugar content of British candy is actually higher.

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    • BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I think they are saying the corn derivatives are the issue, not the sugar.

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• Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Avoid processed foods, regardless of what’s in it.

  Since the 80’s and the low-fat movement, the fat was replaced by gobs of sugar. Which was later replaced by corn syrup.

  Doesn’t really matter which one you’re eating, the high glycemic index is the killer with both. And lots of simple carbs in your diet is (as the medical community is finally starting to acknowledge) the real driver with today’s cardiovascular unhealth. It’s what damages arteries, cholesterol shows up to repair that damage.

  Which is all the reason in the world to avoid processed foods. They will always have a crap macronutrient composition, and sugar is always way too high.

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  • wesker@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I eat pretty clean, this only bites me these days for condiments and the rare occasion I feel like I want a cheat snack.

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  • turdburglar@piefed.social ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    i once heard a good rule of thumb for avoiding processed food - shop the out skirts of the grocery store… don’t go down the aisles in the middle

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    • BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Depends on the store. We have one where the outskirts are the frozen dinner freezers and other prepared foods, and natural foods are in the middle.

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• Montagge@lemmy.zip ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Corn syrup and petroleum byproduct food dyes

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• andyburke@kbin.earth ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Gotta subsidize the farmers 🤷‍♂️

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  • OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If only we could find some way to fuel AI datacenters with corn…

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    • jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      we already can, turn the corn into either oil or ethanol and shove in in a desil generator.

      Our corn growing habits consume far more water than all the proposed datacenters, solar or nuclear are the only reasonable options for powering datacenters at scale.

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    • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No. Replace fields with solar and get rid of half the dairy and meat farms.

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• BigTrout75@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We are the people of the corn

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  • don_kiedyck@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We grew up as children of the corn.

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    • wesker@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      We sell corn and corn accessories.

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• pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  it’s to breed out the mutan gene, i saw it in Logan.

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• Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I found tonic water with fucking corn syrup in it. Just why?

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• notptr@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So much humidity added by all the corn :(

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• chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I buy corn syrup based pancake syrup to use for making granola, it works really well

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  • Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Meanwhile I’m bringing a bottle of real maple syrup to IHOP because I can’t stand that fake Mrs. Butterworth’s corn syrup slop.

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    • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I love real maple syrup, would totally use that instead if I was rich

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  • kettuli@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I make my ”granola” without any syrup and it’s so much better.

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    • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Do you use anything to get it to stick together? What’s better about it? I’ve tried different combinations of ingredients but I like the kind that resembles what you might buy in a store better.

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