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**SkatrySkith** · 02-08-2010, 09:14 PM

The solution is fresh fruit! Fibrous and sweet, but with far, far lower levels of fructose than HFCS, and it's, you know, naturally occurring rather than isolated and made into deathtastic gloop. It becomes a lot easier to dodge the stuff when you buy whole foods.

The one thing that always reminds me of how creepy HFCS is is coke. Here, it contains sugar. In the States, it contains HFCS instead. The taste is markedly different and, in my experience, so much more addictive. When I was living in the US I went from having coke once in a while to having it almost every fucking day for a short while. It became compulsion! Then I switched to Vitamin Water - essentially paying for expensive urine that's packed full of "crystalline fructose." Code words!
Soft drinks really are the easiest way that this junk is sneaking into people's lives, because a lot of people just don't pay attention to drink ingredients or nutritional values. And in the end they might as well just be drinking HFCS.

02-08-2010, 09:14 PM	#4
SkatrySkith Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 596 Senior Member	The solution is fresh fruit! Fibrous and sweet, but with far, far lower levels of fructose than HFCS, and it's, you know, naturally occurring rather than isolated and made into deathtastic gloop. It becomes a lot easier to dodge the stuff when you buy whole foods. The one thing that always reminds me of how creepy HFCS is is coke. Here, it contains sugar. In the States, it contains HFCS instead. The taste is markedly different and, in my experience, so much more addictive. When I was living in the US I went from having coke once in a while to having it almost every fucking day for a short while. It became compulsion! Then I switched to Vitamin Water - essentially paying for expensive urine that's packed full of "crystalline fructose." Code words! Soft drinks really are the easiest way that this junk is sneaking into people's lives, because a lot of people just don't pay attention to drink ingredients or nutritional values. And in the end they might as well just be drinking HFCS.
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