Corn Market Prices

If you haven't already heard, corn prices are rising. So does this spell the end of high fructose corn syrup? I certainly hope so.

Rumor has it that high fructose corn syrup will go up in price but hardly enough to notice. Or so they say... Especially in products like cereals, baked goods, snacks, etc. I find it very difficult to believe this especially knowing how much HFCS is used in virtually every type of product in the supermarket. I'm no expert, but I am finding that food prices are rising across the board.

"Experts" on the other hand, say that we will see a high price increase in meat and dairy products! The argument is that prices will escalate due to the massive amounts of corn that is used in cattle feed. Maybe it's time to go vegan?

I just cleaned out the last bit of high frutose corn syrup from my cupboards. The sneaky devil was hiding in my stewed cans of tomatoes. Dog nabbits!

And speaking of tomatoes, there is talk that the Heinz Co. is going to cut back on their use of high fructose corn syrup in their infamous bottles of ketchup. They are not going to take it out completely, but hope to use less in combination with a riper tomato to get a less expensive formula. And you need not worry, they claim that they will not be genetically engineering a new type of tomato. Someone will have to let me know how that ends up tasting. There's no way I'm going to try it.

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