The beverage makers are jumping off HFCS like rats off a sinking ship these days. Snapple has announced that it will will eliminate HFCS from its recipes. In at least once case this will actually result in fewer calories.
The NYT says that the old ingredient list for Snapple’s Lemon Iced Tea was as follows: “water, high fructose corn syrup, citric acid, tea, natural flavors.” Calories: 200. The new version: “filtered water, sugar, citric acid, tea, natural flavors.” Calories: 160.
The beverage maker also announced that it will redesign its bottle so it will actually fit into your cup holder. How nice.
Reading the Tea Leaves, Snapple Refreshes Itself [NYT]
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Moving away from HFCS is always good (in my mind, anyway), but what I really want is more bottled ice tea that’s not sweetened.
Lipton is the only company I know for sure that sells unsweetened bottled tea.
I’m a die hard water drinker but I am so pleased to read about a company ditching HFCS! I hope more will follow!
This is great news. Now maybe we can finally get rid of New Coke once and for all…
The hilarity will ensue when these same people who claim to taste the corn in HFCS sweetened products realize the sugar used to sweeten their new drinks are made from sugar beets and not from cane.
“I can taste the beet, I swear.”
YEAH!
“You should not be drinking any sugared crap, sugar or HFCS.“
papahoth, your deep concern HAS been noted, and will be addressed in the swiftest and most appropriate manner possible!
<sound of toilet flushing>
Most companies use HFCS due to it being much cheaper than regular sugar. The reason the HFCS is cheaper is due to goverment regulation on sugar, and as always the more regulation the more expensive things become. Of course American farmers couldn’t compete on a global scale so the government had to protect them with protectionist measures, and of couse we then pay taxes that subsidize sugar farmers and then end up getting screwed because sugar becomes to expensive.
http://www.fff.org/freedom/0498d.asp