HFCS contains mercury

[naturallypixie]

The latest reason why less processed foods are better for you.

www.webmd.com/food-recipes/news/20090127/mercury-in-high-fructose-corn-syrup

Here is the list of foods in which the researchers found mercury:

* 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

The researchers are quick to point out "that their list was "just a snapshot in time;  we only tested one sample of each product. That clearly is not sufficient grounds to give definitive advice to consumers."

 

Comments

[em-yrt.livejournal.com]

I don't eat many of those things, but I do eat ketchup and yogurt and drink an occasional coke. That's really disturbing. I hope someone will do a more detailed follow-up study soon.

[sexykneesocks.livejournal.com]

i asked a friend of mine about this yesterday and he said...

"
i went through the links and downloaded a PDF of the article referenced. It is poorly written, but if you actually dig down there long enough you'll find that they're measuring Hg concentrations only as high as 300 parts per TRILLION (in oatmeal). There was no differentiation made between elemental Hg and Methyl-Hg compounds (the most harmful).

Most of items came up as non detected and most of those that did detect had concentrations just over the low detection limit of the instruments. Working down at the PPT level is prone to error. There was no data for each sample showing retests and variation in reading.

There seems to be very little correlation between concentration of HFCS and concentration of mercury in the total foodstuff. This leads one to believe that some (if not most) of the Hg found is coming from other sources in these foods.

Even if you do assume that these test results are totally accurate and meaningful, the total concentrations are STILL so amazingly small to be essentially meaningless. Keep in mind that tuna is up over 1 part par MILLION methyl-Hg (1,000,000 PPT!!)."