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Mercury in High Fructose Corn Syrup

We’ve already discussed the fact that excessive sugar in your diet is a huge problem… and one of the most popular additives by food manufacturers is high fructose corn syrup because, frankly, it’s a cheap way for food manufacturers to satisfy your taste for sweets. Well, now there is even a better reason to avoid high fructose corn syrup. Researchers have found detectable mercury in high fructose corn syrup. It turns out that mercury can be used to make caustic soda, which is one of the products used to make high-fructose corn syrup. While that is considered to be an outdated technology, it really isn’t known where food manufacturers get their high fructose corn syrup. It could be from anywhere in the world and, guess what, foreign suppliers probably aren’t using the most current mercury free technology. This also means that food manufacturers have been using tainted corn syrup in the past. The actual research study found mercury in about 31% of the food samples tested. According to WebMD the foods that were found to contain mercury are listed below.

Quaker Oatmeal to Go bars
Jack Daniel’s Barbecue Sauce
Hershey’s Chocolate Syrup
Kraft Original Barbecue Sauce
Nutri-Grain Strawberry Cereal Bars
Manwich Gold Sloppy Joe
Market Pantry Grape Jelly
Smucker’s Strawberry Jelly
Pop-Tarts Frosted Blueberry
Hunt’s Tomato Ketchup
Wish-Bone Western Sweet & Smooth Dressing
Coca-Cola Classic: no mercury found on a second test
Yoplait Strawberry Yogurt
Minute Maid Berry Punch
Yoo-hoo Chocolate Drink
Nesquik Chocolate Milk
Kemps Fat Free Chocolate Milk

Now the food industry and the researchers are saying that it is too soon to make any recommendations to consumers. Frankly, THAT IS CRAZY! The fact is that mercury can harm the brain, heart, kidneys, lungs, and immune system. A form of mercury called methylmercury is is dangerous to a baby’s developing brain and nervous system. I want you to get the picture of just how serious this is. According to Boyd Haley, Ph.D, who is one of the leading researchers in mercury toxicity, mercury is a huge problem especially for young boys. Mercury attacks the protective sheath for the axon of nerves and, consequently destroys nerves. He says mercury is THE major factor in autism, Alzheimer’s and other neurological disorders.

Here is the simple truth. The food industry doesn’t care one bit about you or your family. All they care about is profits and the way they make those profits is to use the cheapest materials (I refuse to call it food) from the cheapest suppliers they can find in their products. It is totally up to you to take responsibility for your health and the health of your family. Bottom line… you choose to poison your family or not. Read labels on everything, stop buying processed foods, stop consuming high fructose corn syrup. It’s up to you.

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Mercury in High Fructose Corn Syrup

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