Accidental Hedonist - High Fructose Corn Syrup and Fast Foods

High Fructose Corn Syrup and Fast Foods

12/20/05 @ 09:30:00 am, by Kate Hopkins

5554 views • Categories: High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS), Food Health and Safety

I haven't had time of late to update the High Fructose Corn Syrup list. To sit down and find out which producers have added this nefarious ingredient to their product takes a fair amount of time for research. I am planning some posts in January about HFCS and sugar, but mostly in regard to the political and financial implications surrounding these ingredients.

In the meanwhile, over at the most-excellant blog Fast Food News, Ken has compiled a list of HFCS products found at various fast food restaurants. He has graciously given me permission to reproduce his list, found beneath the cut.

He's also also working on gluten-free and hydrogenated oil lists for fast food items, so if you're on the lookout for those items, return to his site often for the updates.

Thanks Ken!

Technorati Tags: High Fructose Corn Syrup, Fast Food, HFCS

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Arby's

Fat Free Italian Dressing
Honey Wheat Bread
Light Balsamic Vinaigrette
Raspberry Vinaigrette
Santa Fe Ranch Dressing
Spicy Brown Honey Mustard

Blimpie

Blue Cheese Dressing
Buttermilk Ranch Dressing
Cinnamon Roll
Fat Free Italian Dressing
Fudge Brownie
Honey French Dressing
Marbled Rye Roll
Mustard Potato Salad
Potato Salad
Sweet Peppers
Thousand Island Dressing

Burger King

Breakfast Syrup
Buffalo Sauce
Chocolate Shake Syrup
Coca Cola Classic
Corn Dusted Buns
Croissant (Croissan'wich)
Dr Pepper
Dutch Apple Pie
Hershey'S Sundae Pie
Honey Mustard Dipping Sauce
Honey Mustard Spread
Icee - Coca Cola Classic
Icee - Minute Maid Cherry
Ketchup
Milk Shake
Milk, 1% Lowfat Chocolate
Mott's Strawberry Flavored Applesauce
Sesame Seed Buns
Specialty Buns
Sprite
Steak Sauce
Strawberry Shake Syrup
Tartar Sauce

Chick-fil-a

Barbecue Sauce
Blue Cheese Dressing
Buttermilk Ranch Dressing
Carrot & Raisin Salad
Carrot & Raisin Salad
Chicken Salad Cup
Chick-fil-A Southwest Chargrilled Salad
Chocolate syrup ingredients
Dr Pepper
Fat Free Honey Mustard Dressing
Fudge Nut Brownie
Garlic and Butter Croutons
Honey Mustard Sauce
Honey Roasted BBQ Sauce
Honey Roasted Sunflower Kernels
Polynesian Sauce
Reduced Fat Raspberry Vinaigrette
Sunflower Multigrain Bagel
Thousand Island Dressing
Yeast rolls

Dairy Queen

Chocolate Cold Fudge

Jack in the Box

Asian Sesame Dressing
Barbecue Dipping Sauce
Barq's Root Beer
Bittersweet Chocolate Syrup
Blueberry French Toast Sticks
Bun
Chocolate Syrup
Coca-Cola
Croissant
Croutons, Gourmet Seasoned
Dr. Pepper
Fanta Orange Syrup
Fanta Strawberry
Grape Jelly
Honey Mustard Dipping Sauce
Ketchup
Log Cabin Syrup
Low Fat Balsamic Dressing
Mayonnaise
Mayo-Onion Sauce
Minute Maid Lemonade
Oreo Cookie Crumbs
Original French Toast Sticks
Roasted Red Pepper Sauce
Secret Sauce
Sourdough Bread, Grilled
Sprite
Strawberry Syrup
Strawberry/Banana Syrup
Sweet 'N Sour Dipping Sauce
Tartar Sauce

KFC

Potato Salad
Apple Pie Slice
Cherry Cheesecake Parfait
Lemon Meringue Pie
Lil' Bucket Chocolate CrÃ¨me
Lil' Bucket Fudge Brownie
Lil' Bucket Lemon CrÃ¨me
Lil' Bucket Strawberry Short Cake
Strawberry CrÃ¨me Pie Slice
Apple Pie Mini's
Mott's Apple Sauce

McDonald's

1% Low Fat Chocolate Milk Jug
Baked Apple Pie
Barbeque Sauce
Big Mac Bun
Big Mac Sauce
Biscuit
Butter Garlic Croutons
Chocolate Triple Thick Shake
Coca-Cola Classic
Deluxe Warm Cinnamon Roll
English Muffin
Hi-C Orange Lavaburst
Honey Wheat Roll
Hot Caramel Sundae
Hot Mustard Sauce
Hotcakes
Ketchup
Low Fat Caramel Dip (for Apple Dippers)
McDonaldland Cookies
McFlurry with Oreo Cookies
Newman's Own Cobb Dressing
Oatmeal Raisin Cookie
POWERade Mountain Blast
Regular Bun
Sesame Seed Bun
Southwestern Chipotle Barbeque Sauce
Sprite
Strawberry Sundae
Strawberry Triple Thick Shake
Sweet 'N Sour Sauce

Subway

Chicken Strips, Teriyaki Glazed
Chipotle Soutwest Sauce
Chocolate Chunk Cookie
Deli Style Roll
Fat Free Honey Mustard
Peanut Butter
Sourdough Bread
Wheat Bread

Taco Bell

Caramel Apple Empanada
Citrus Salsa
Pizza Sauce
Salsa

Whataburger

Apple Turnover, Fried
Bread, Texas Toast Enriched
Buns, Wheat
Buns, White
Crackers, Keebler Original Club
Croutons, Njoy Seasoned
Dressing, Low Fat Ranch
Dressing, Low Fat Vinaigrette
Dressing, Thousand Island
Jam, Strawberry
Jelly, Grape
Milkshake, Malt Syrup
Milkshake, Chocolate
Milkshake, Strawberry
Pancake Syrup
Salad Dressing
Syrup, Cherry Coke Fountain
Syrup, Coca-Cola Classic Fountain
Syrup, Dr Pepper Fountain
Syrup, Fanta Strawberry Fountain
Syrup, Barqâ€™s Root Beer Fountain
Syrup, Minute Maid Lemonade Fountain
Syrup, Minute Maid Orange Soda Fountain
Syrup, POWERaDE Fruit Punch Fountain
Syrup, Sprite Fountain
Tartar Sauce

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Comment from: em [Visitor]

A HFCS-containing product list is an interesting idea, but given the state of food today, it seems like it would be easier to create a list of foods that don't contain it. (I mean, it's in practically every processed conventional food, and some organic ones, too!)

Permalink 12/20/05 @ 10:47

Comment from: Pamela [Visitor]

Ah! Further proof that one ought to steer as clear of fast food joints as possible. Trans-fats, HFCS, over-processed, empty calories -- the list goes on. Whatever happened to brown- bagging it??

Thanks for the alert.

Permalink 12/20/05 @ 17:48

Comment from: Sarah [Visitor]

Hi, I'm not familiar with corn syrup at all. Is there something evil about it that I should know? Isn't it just liquid sugar? Some creme caramel recipes (e.g. Thomas Keller) list corn syrup as one of the ingredients for the caramel base. What's the purpose? I've made creme caramel without the corn syrup and it seems fine. Many thanks and regards.

Permalink 12/20/05 @ 21:58

Comment from: Misa [Visitor] · http://sweetmisa.blogspot.com

I'm allergic to high fructose corn syrup, so this list is very helpful. :o)

Jack-in-the-Box's bun has HFCS in it, but the Ciabatta bread/bun does NOT. I can eat it without getting sick. (I love ciabatta and, for fast food, it's pretty good.)

Permalink 12/21/05 @ 02:16

Comment from: Mithrandir [Visitor] · http://www.soundandfury.info/

In answer to Sarah's question:

Corn syrup is a sweetener created by enzymatic action on a corn starch solution. Basically, the starch is broken down into its component glucose molecules. Further enzymes can be used to convert some of the glucose into fructose.

Sucrose (table sugar) is a disaccharides composed of one glucose and one fructose. HFCS comes in various grades, with the fructose proportion being 42%, 55%, or even 90%. Confusingly enough, HFCS may in fact contain less fructose than table sugar.

Fructose is a desirable food additive because it is much sweeter than glucose, and so less is required. Fructose is also more soluble at low temperatures.

It's the fructose that gets the bad rap, as far as I can tell. Fructose is hard to digest and metabolize, especially when out of balance with glucose. It has been implicated in accelerated aging, increased risk of Type II diabetes, and various gastrointestinal discomforts.

I'm sure some well-meaning but poorly-informed persons will rail against glucose as well. That would be rather foolish, as glucose is the most easily metabolized substance on the planet. Cells burn glucose in preference to everything else, and expend a good bit of effort to turn most other things into glucose before consuming them.

So the only real criticism of glucose is that it is the most simple, direct source of calories one can consume.

Permalink 12/21/05 @ 12:08

Comment from: mario [Visitor]

Since corn sweetner is a product of corn and corn is used to fatten livestock and hogs what do we think it will do for us?

Permalink 01/08/06 @ 12:52

Comment from: jade a kennedy [Visitor]

did the f.d.a approve high fructose corn syrup
if they did what can be done
everything teenagers eat has
high fructose corn syrup in it ?

Permalink 02/10/06 @ 12:30

Comment from: magnusfl [Visitor]

Corn syrup is one of the evil sweetners as replacmet of suger in the 1980s is one of the major reasons country is fat as it is 10 time more fating then suger at the same sweetness

Permalink 02/14/06 @ 16:34

Comment from: jade a kennedy [Visitor]

if you want to lose weight do just one thing .read labels.eat nothing withhigh fructose corn syrup in it.
be slim be trim.you can do it.
no diet needed.you'll be glad you did.

Permalink 03/09/06 @ 08:13

Comment from: Robert L. Neufeld [Visitor]

Thanks for doing so good on the lists that you have come up with to date.
Keep up the good job because the good will one day over come the bad.
Just keep informing us and we will be on the look out for something new that will come out to sell to the public.

Permalink 04/10/06 @ 15:24

Comment from: shellie nelson [Visitor]

Is there any way you could make a list of things without hfcs in everything we eat. I think im allergic also to this cause i get headaces and hives with exczema after eating things like pop, some candy, chips, marshmellows and some juices. So if you could help me out with a list of food I might be able to eat i would apreciate it.

Thank YOU,
Shellie Nelson age: 44

Permalink 12/08/06 @ 18:43

Comment from: Angela [Visitor]

Some items without HFCS.
Peppermint Patty's
Breyer's Vanilla Ice Cream
Taco Bell's Bean Burrito's
Subway Wrap's
Subway Italian Bread
Grape Nuts
Grape Nut Flakes
Hunts Vanilla and Chocolate Pudding
Baker's Chocolate Squares
Hersery Chocolate Chips
McCormick's Original Chili Seasoning
French's French Fried Onions
Welch's 100% Grape Juice
Cheez-It's
Triscuit Original
C&H Sugar
C&H Powdered Sugar (Has corn starch)
Famous Dave's Roasted Chicken, Corn on the Cob.
Musselman's Natural Apple Sauce
Pace Chunky Salsa
Dannon Plain Yogurt

That's all I can think of for now.

Subway, McDonald's, Taco Bell, Carl's Jr., KFC, and Famous Dave's have ingredient lists on their websites now.

Permalink 10/01/07 @ 04:51

Comment from: Barbara Dewell [Visitor]

I don't appreciate your popup that refuses to allow me to submit my name and passwork or allow me to get your popup off my screen. I appreciate what you are doing and the information you are providing, but not your heavy-handed way of finding out who your readers are!

Permalink 10/23/07 @ 07:52

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