Refuse to buy ELF brand herring snacks at Whole Foods

After looking all round the town for a marinated herring snack that didn’t have High Fructose Corn Syrup in it, I thought certainly that Whole Foods would be able to fill the bill. I absolutely astounded the guy behind the fish counter when I asked him where the herring snacks without HFCS were.

“Oh, we don’t have anything with HFCS”

“Really? Come over here with me…. take a look at this label”

Whoops.

Another guy in the store told me that Whole Foods probably couldn’t find a manufacturer/vendor that made it without HFCS.

They didn’t look very far, since a quick internet search turned up a small company in Wisconsin. They have a product that sounds awesome - made with beet sugar. I suggested to Whole Foods that they contact Baensch in Wisconsin and make a deal.

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What's the problem with High Fructose Corn Syrup anyhow? Funny you should ask.

The folks who give us an entire grocery store filled with products containing High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) have produced some warm and fuzzy advertising to thwart the public’s concern over their product.

Maybe HFCS isn’t exactly DDT or dioxin, and we won’t die tomorrow from ingesting it. That isn’t the issue, and the industry doesn’t want to go where the real issues are, of course.

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