Corn Syrup Quotes

• Avoid food products containing ingredients that are A) unfamiliar B) unpronounceable C) more than five in number or that include D) high-fructose corn syrup

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  Michael Pollan

  Corn Syrup   Numbers   Ingredients  

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.102, Penguin

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• To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft drink in the supermarket is to have some corn with your corn. Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the fruit drinks sold in the supermarket have been sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup.

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  Michael Pollan

  Corn Syrup   Nuggets   Soft Drinks  

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.14, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• In the U.S., too many yogurts are filled with corn syrup, preservatives, artificial this and that. To me, this is poison.

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  Mireille Guiliano

  Corn Syrup   Poison   Yogurt  

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• Very simply, we subsidize high-fructose corn syrup in this country, but not carrots. While the surgeon general is raising alarms over the epidemic of obesity, the president is signing farm bills designed to keep the river of cheap corn flowing, guaranteeing that the cheapest calories in the supermarket will continue to be the unhealthiest.

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  Michael Pollan

  Inspirational   Motivational   Country  

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.59, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap.

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  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny   Witty   Laughter  

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• Corn syrup and added fats have been outed as major ingredients in fast food, but they hide out in packaged foods too, even presumed-innocent ones like crackers.

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  Barbara Kingsolver

  Animal   Vegetables   Corn Syrup  

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.130, Faber & Faber

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• I eat nothing that's processed or refined - no high-fructose corn syrup, no sugar, no trans-fats. I eat a lot of fish and monounsaturated fats from olives, olive oil and nuts. A lot of organic, fresh fruits and vegetables. No bread. No gluten. No wheat. No rice.

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  Dean Karnazes

  Vegetables   Nuts   Corn Syrup  

  "Dean Karnazes Makes Marathoners Look Lazy" By Catherine Pearson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2012.

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• Organic Oreos are not a health food. When Coca-Cola begins selling organic Coke, as it surely will, the company will have struck a blow for the environment perhaps, but not for our health. Most consumers automatically assume that the word "organic" is synomymous with health, but it makes no difference to your insulin metabolism if the high-fructose corn syrup in your soda is organic.

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  Michael Pollan

  Blow   Corn Syrup   Differences  

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.113, Penguin

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• Cooking for yourself is the only sure way to take back control of your diet from the food scientists and food processors, and to guarantee you're eating real food rather than edible foodlike substances, with their unhealthy oils, high-fructose corn syrup, and surfeit of salt.

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  Michael Pollan

  Real   Corn Syrup   Oil  

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• I dont know too many parents that want to feed their kids soda, but high-fructose corn syrup is cheap. The price of soda in 20 years has gone down 40 percent while the price of whole foods, fruits and vegetables, has gone up 40 percent and obesity goes up right along that curve.

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  Tom Colicchio

  Kids   Curves   Vegetables  

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