Comments on: Corn Aliases: How The King Crop Hides In Everything You Eat

By: Becky Striepe

Becky Striepe — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 21:35:32 +0000

David, can you be more specific?

By: David

David — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 21:33:17 +0000

I feel certain that if you actually learned something about the subject you are talking about, you would stop talking about it out of embarrassment. It’s not that all of what you say is wrong. It’s just that so little of what you have to say is right.

By: New School Lunch Bill a Promising Start | We Take Sides

New School Lunch Bill a Promising Start | We Take Sides — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:21:15 +0000

[...] with this legislation is that it leaves intact a number of crop subsidies (like corn), which keeps corn-based additives and sweeteners very much in standard school lunch meals. Still, the Senate has taken a promising step into putting [...]

By: Dagny

Dagny — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:17:54 +0000

My comments are about a year late. I like to thank you for this information. Mauricio’s comments are interesting also but not sure then how to interpret the corn-based food list. Through a process of food elimination and keeping a diary for three years I learned that my intestinal problems occured only when I ate food with corn syrup, corn starch, corn meal, corn oil. My intolerance is to a protein in corn. I wonder how much of a corn protein is retained in the processing as explained by Mauricio. That is, if at the end, it still contains the culprit corn protein. I don’t expect anyone to answer this question this late but the list is something to keep an eye in my diary.

By: Food Allergies: Read the Label | beYOU.tv Magazine

Food Allergies: Read the Label | beYOU.tv Magazine — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:05:18 +0000

[...] health posted an article which contains a list of common ingredients and several of their aliases. Eat. Drink. Better recently posted an article focusing on corn and its many aliases. When it comes to labels and [...]

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:05:16 +0000

In response to Mauricio’s “But for health reasons, it doesn’t matter. ”

My daughter is allergic to corn. ANYTHING derived from corn will set off a painful cycle of eczema which can take weeks to subside.

Chemists do not know everything. Keep looking and you will keep discovering. I suspect that anything derived of corn retains a fingerprint. My family eats only organic now. Corn is the enemy.

By: George

George — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:32:26 +0000

This might have been mentioned in a previous blog post, but you should check the film “King Corn.”

By: Coca-Cola is Healthy, High Fructose Corn Syrup is Good for You, and the USDA Refuses to Define Natural : Eco Child’s Play

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:26:13 +0000

[...] Corn Aliases: How The King Crop Hides In Everything You Eat [...]

By: Foodsleuth

Foodsleuth — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:54:28 +0000

For those of you who are interested in more info. on our “corn based society” there are two very good books. “The Story of Corn” by Betty Fussell, excellent book. The other covers food on a wider scale but has much to say about corn; Michael Pollan’s – The Omnivore’s Dilemma. Excellent insight on the ‘power’ of the corn industry dating back to the Aztecs.

By: Farmers Market Fare 12 : Eat. Drink. Better.

Farmers Market Fare 12 : Eat. Drink. Better. — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:48:46 +0000

[...] corn because of it’s tainted connections to HFCS, livestock feed and corn ethanol and just about everything subsidized in foods, well, fresh corn on the cob is still one of my favorites of summer. This soup makes the best of [...]