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Default Looking for Corn Syrup Not Light, Not High-Fructose

Doug Freyburger wrote:
> The Cook wrote:
>> It now comes without HFCS. The ingredients are corn syrup, salt,
>> vanilla. For a while (and I have no idea how long) it did have HFCS.
>> I tossed a couple of bottles recently that had it, but I bought them
>> several months ago. Check the labels. Products change. Crisco no
>> longer has a reportable amount of trans fats.

>
> 1999 - I looked at brand after brand of tomato paste for one made only
> with tomatoes. The only brand I could find without added sugar was
> Contadina.
>
> 2005 - The store was out of Contadina so I read all of the labels again.
> None of the brands had added sugar any time.
>
> Year to year I've read the labels on Diet Rc Cola. The listed
> ingredients change often. I suspect they use it as a test marketing
> brand to see if they can beat Diet Rite Cola.
>
> Once I've seen Carefree Sugarless gum made this saccharine instead of
> aspartame. Once. Never since. Sigh.


The moral of the story seems to be that one has to scrutinize the
labels every single time one purchases a product.

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Jean B.