Corn Ingredients That May be Hiding in Food?
The United States grows a lot of corn. That is actually an understatement. There is so much corn that technologies are continually developed to extract individual components of corn to be used in mass production because corn is a cheap source for the raw ingredients needed. Dextrose can originate from other sources, but it most likely is made from corn due to corn being a cheap raw ingredient source. Look for the obvious such as corn, corn starch, corn sugar, high fructose corn syrup, and other words that contain corn. But the truth of the matter is that unless each manufacturer of foods one wishes to consume is consulted about whether corn is present, it simply will not be known. It can be in vitamins, it can hide as a “natural flavor,” it’s in the glue of some tea bags. Fortunately for many intolerance issues there is a threshold where symptoms are triggered. So eating corn-on-the-cob will most definitely cause symptoms where a little bit of dissolved adhesive from the tea bag for th
