Every one of these soft drinks includes high fructose corn syrup — one of the most common GMO ingredients:
Coca Cola Company
Coca Cola
Sprite
Cherry Coke
Barq’s Root Beer
Minute Maid Orange
Minute Maid Grape
Surge
Ultra
PepsiCo
Pepsi
Slice
Wild Cherry Pepsi
Mug Root Beer
Mountain Dew
Cadbury/Schweppes
7-Up
Dr. Pepper
A & W Root Beer
Sunkist Orange
Schweppes Ginger Ale
Are you saying coca cola’s corn syrup is made from gmo corn? please resond
Yes. High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is not organic… it comes from GMO corn. Coca-Cola and Pepsi switched to using HFCS instead of sugar in the U.S. and Canada in 1984 because it was far cheaper for them (however they still use sugar in other nations, where GMOs are either banned or labeled).
Coca cola *does* produce a sugar/sucrose-based version of their soda (often around Passover, for Jews who are restricted by custom from eating corn during this time) — it can be identified by its yellow cap.
But even when you choose soda made with sugar, please remember: the vast majority of the sugar in this country ALSO comes from GMO sugar beets.
Just say no to soda, unless it’s organic!
I had a sandwich today tuna with pickles with miricle whip and I noticed that the bread had hfcs the pickles also hfcs the mircle whip hfcs and the soda hfcs They say hfcs is okay in moderation but it is in everything I look at lately I cant believe it, and what your telling me is these hfcs are gmo’s what should I do any information would be greatly appriciated
Kile, the best rule of thumb is to buy organic. Even though there is no way to ensure anything is 100% free of GMOs, organic products are your best and safest bet. For more info, read my post about that here: http://gmo-awareness.com/2011/05/05/is-organic-always-gmo-free/
To get an idea about how and where to shop, consult this page of my blog: http://gmo-awareness.com/shopping-list/
And here is a list of GMO-free brands: http://gmo-awareness.com/shopping-list/gmo-free-brands/
I forgot to mention that my mom gave me a list about fish and the amount of mercury different fish have, some have more than others, tuna is one of the highest—you know conciencious shopping is one thing but I can’t believe what is happening to our food, sometimes I feel its hopeless because all I hear is destruction of natural resources, your food, animals and anything man gets a hold of seems to be destroyed,poisoned preverted anyway i cant believe whats been going on with food
its like a nightmare or some sci fi movie you want to get out but cant ,mercury in fish whats going on?
Mercury in fish – There is a Japanese current of warm water that comes near the United States coast every year. I lived in Westport Washington for most of my life and worked on many commercial fishing boats. The Albacore tuna that would come to the edge of this warm water current, were the fish we would catch. They would average about 20.0 lbs. and some as big as 40.0 lbs. The amount of mercury is these tuna are very low by comparison of the larger,older tuna caught off the coast of Japan (which is what is sold in supermarkets.. – Starkist. etc.)
From some of the Department of Fish and Wildlife biologists and scientists that would come out on observation trips, had informed us that a person would have to eat about 2000-3000 lbs tuna to become sick from the mercury. How the fish are handled at the moment of death, also determines the amount of mercury that is left in their meat. I can’t say I know how the Japanese commercial tuna fishermen handle their catch. But I would urge you to buy tuna from a commercial tuna fisherman at dockside in westport washington. I know thats a far shot for most people. But they are by far the safest, and have the lowest amounts of mercury than any other fish. Mercury travels through the blood stream, and most commercial (supermarket distributed) fish, are not bled out properly, if at all. When the fish dies with the blood still in its veins, it essentially rots. Properly handled fishes are bled out immediately and then chilled slowly, after about 30 minutes of a chill bath, they are put into either ice bins to be frozen, or Subfreezing salted ice water, roughly 28 degree (f). They are not frozen throughout the entirety of the fish, the meat is chilled rather. The product is amazing, and makes the stuff you buy in a supermarket, more like Cat food.
Sean thanks for such an informative reply!
pls answer can you explain why HFCS considered or said to be natural but some says it is GE ingredient of a soda… tnx
Jerome, this article explains it best: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/high-fructose-corn-syrup-dangers_b_861913.html
So Kim Mitchell was wrong then..
Does the throwback pepsi/dew contain cane sugar, or (GMO)beet sugar?? Also, what is it going to take to require GMO labeling? Can’t some religion come in and say this is against their religion or something…