corn syrup in fat free milk??????? :::snipped from another group::::

[Guest guest]

Hi all,

can you believe it - fat free milk and fat free half and half have corn

syrup in it?

 

I bought the other day a bottle of milk which read: " Fat free milk " from a

 

company called " Active Lifestyle " . " Vitamin A and D added with plant

sterols. Helps reduce cholesterol. "

The bottle had a green cap and mostly green label.

 

I didn't read the label at the store, just grabbed the bottle and only

when home looked closer.So, here it is: " Active Lifestyle, fat free milk,

vitamin A and D added.

Ingredients: nonfat milk, plant sterol blend ( plant sterols, corn syrup

solids, polyclycerol esters of fatty acids, gum acacia, vitamin A

palmitate,

vitamin D3.

Distributed by: Inter-American Products, Cincinnati, OH45202 .

 

What the heck are plant sterols and all that other stuff?

 

Next day I started to read milk labels and discovered that fat free half

and half also has corn syrup in it.

 

ALWAYS beware when something says fat free, that might be the tip off.

 

Better look at labels on even the most unusual items which you'd never

imagine to have corn syrup and who knows what else in it. Lots of dog food

has

corn syrup in it, btw.It look as if just about everything has corn syrup

in

it.

 

READ your labels.

 

Also most of the brands of sour cream have corn starch or guar gum or

gelatine in it. Even those claiming to be organic. Many others you can

even

tell they have corn starch in them as they have a gritty feel to them. I

noticed it first with Shamrock sour cream which was awful. The only pure

sour

cream I found in my grocery store was the Daisy brand.

 

So, I checked all the yogurts, and never bought anything but Daisy

products, thinking I was okay. Never imagined milk having corn syrup in it.

This

is disgusting.

 

What a crock our food industry is.

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

There is a generic message here: don't MESS with the food! If Nature

makes it with 3 or 4% fat, drink 4% fat and use less of it if you worry

about fat.

I have become a big fan of Sally Fallon's work.

Her cookbook " Nourishing Traditons " contains many quotes from the

work of Dr. Weston A. Price. She distinguishes between " new-fangled foods "

and traditional food. Milk that has been tampered with, even with the best

of intentions, clearly falls in the category of new-fangled food.

 

For lots of free information in this spirit visit http://westonaprice.org

 

Ien in the Kootenays, getting more old-fashioned by the day

http://freegreenliving (blog)

http://wildhealing.net (online superfoods store)

http://wildwholefoods.net (my old friend AFA algae)