I got a little thing about corn syrup. Out of the blue a couple years ago, one of my uncles developed an allergy to corn syrup. Whenever he ingests any corn syrup, he breaks out in hives and has a terrible time of it. Because of this, I have been paying much better attention to ingredient lists on product labels.
I have noticed that almost everything that is a drinkable product is mostly water and corn syrup. Why is that? Now I realize it is a cheap sweetener that replaces sugar, but in my humble opinion, if the good Lord wanted us to drink corn syrup he would have made pools and lakes and oceans of it.
What really ticks me off about corn syrup products is how some products are sold as “juice” when it doesn’t have a drop of juice at all in it. Unless you want to consider corn syrup as corn juice. And some try to hype it up by saying they have 3%, or 4%, or even 10% real juice. Woo, big deal… then it ain’t juice is it? It’s corn syrup!
These products should be properly labeled and named for what they are. They should have in great big letters on the front grape flavored corn syrup or orange flavored corn syrup. Even most soda pops these days are carbonated corn syrup. All of these things should be sold as corn syrup as that is what they are.
Bill Mel8er
