Does anyone else think its wierd that my health food store sells corn syrup?
Corn syrup is of itself, healthy. It is corn. We eat corn. Dietitians and doctors are upset with the food industry for putting it in everything packaged , even foods that normally do not contain sugar. We eat too much of it. I picked up pizza rolls from the frozen food section, and read the ingredients. It had four kinds of sugar listed. I put them back. Diabetics can eat it, but as part of their total caloric intake for the day, as they would with cane or beet sugar. And with the same rules, never sugar by itself, always with something else to slow down the body from slurping it up. Corn syrup can raise blood sugars in the same way as other sugars. Corn syrup is a easy way to get sugar into something, no melting or heating necessary, that has already been done for you. So not, it is not a surprise that it is in a health food store. Mine sells unprocessed cane sugar, raw sugar, and honey. It is still all sugar, all carbohydrates. Pecan pie has corn syrup, and is notorious for its high
