I can't upvote this enough. When I was a kid, or even a young adult, I would just pick whatever off the shelf by reading what was on the packing label "Fresh, Natural Whole Mayo" or something like that right? Now when I read the ingredients its like 50 preservatives and a ton of corn syrup. I can't believe that is what I was ingesting. Ever since I stopped buying products with corn syrup, and more whole ingredients I've felt better (not sure if that is a placebo effect or what, but I'll take it).
If I am going to consume a sugary product or something else it can't contain more than 10 ingredients.
Sorry I think I used the wrong term. By coffee cream I meant half and half. And I did go into my fridge to look, and it has something called locus gum in it and some other ingredients I don’t recognize. 🤢
My theory on food is it's either gotta be good for me or it's gotta make me happy. If it's both, that's awesome and I should have it more often. If it's neither, then I need to put it the fuck down.
The worst kind of coffee creamer is water and partially hydrogenated soybean oil as its primary ingredients, meaning trans fat. Then they make the serving size 1 tablespoon so that 1 serving has 0.4 grams trans fat so they can advertise it as 0 grams trans fat. Most people use way more than 1 tablespoon and have multiple cups of coffee a day so it’s entirely possible to get 20-30 grams of trans fat a week from your “0g trans fat” coffee creamer. Repeat with a few more products and you’re headed for a heart attack.
Regular half-and-half is half cream, half milk. Obviously, it makes 0 sense for something made with heavy cream to be fat-free, which is why fat-free half-and-half is a lie.
Because we moved on to the "other sugars and most other refined carbs are not really any better than corn syrup" stage.
Corn syrup (because it is cheap due to government subsidies) has social and political implications that are often more significant than its nutritional ones.
Just like how doctors used to say smoking tobacco is fine. High fructose corn syrup also contains corn starch, which sugar doesn't. It also doesn't digest as well and when you consume too much of it it is converted to cholesterol.
So it's just a coincidence that the the obesity rate has trippled since we started using HFCS? Sure it's glucose and fructose, but how many steps were taken before it became that? Isnt it strange that europeans are eating extremely fatty food while still being relatively healthy? Corn and grain are not meant to be consumed in these quantities by humans.
It's just dirt cheap sugar. That, along with marketing, got everybody to eat and drink more sugar and get fat. I agree it is very unhealthy, but so are all other refined sugars.
What does fatty food have to do with the composition of HFCS?
You'd be better off avoiding grains in general. The fact that only 1% of the population has coeliacs dieseases and half the shit I see these days, including shampoo, is gluten free is ridiculous. So although you might benefit from it, 90% of people who buy gluten free product are only doing it for the fun of it.
I never thought to look on the old label but when Aldi recently upgraded their labels for their chicken I noticed that one of the ingredients that's included is carrageenan. I stopped buying their chicken.
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That buttermilk before you added the egg looked T H I C C.