How to avoid high fructose corn syrup by luinel

"It changed my sweet tooth irrevocably."

How I did it: Checked lots of labels!  You would not believe how many foods (even those being marketed as "healthy") have HFCS!  Now i automatically check the label and am starting to remember which foods are off limit.

Lessons & tips: Take your time, sometimes the dreaded HFCS is way down the list of ingredients, and there are a lot of confusing ingredients to wade through.  If it has a lot of ingredients in it that you can't recognize, maybe you don't want to be eating it even without the HFCS because it's over-processed.  Checking the back of yogurt and sour cream containers was really opening.  Yogurt would often have 15-20 ingredients, sour cream up to 75, but if you go with the natural or organic product you can bring the yogurt down to 5-10 and sour cream down to 2-3.

Resources: All you need is the label, but i plan to continue researching this and making more healthy choices in other areas as well.


 

Apr 27, 10:46PM PDT | 1 comment | 1 cheer


Comments:

luinel is wondering what her next big goal should be....

i did this for over four months

Since i started training for a triathlon i have been a little less strict about my diet: i’ve been letting myself have a Coke 1-2 times a week (Coca-Cola has always been my biggest weakness) or maybe a bowl of rice crispies / rice crispy treat. For the most part, however, i still only buy foods that do not have HFCS in them. i can’t eat the frosted fruit pies anymore (i threw it out after 2-3 bites, it was disgusting), eat candy extremely rarely, and am not even interested in food with dubious ingredients (such as doughnuts). i ate a piece of store bought cake yesterday at a party and the icing was soooo sweet: i didn’t even want to look at the label.

Apr 27, 10:50PM PDT | Respond to this


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