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Tasty Desayuno : Have You Had Your Mercury Today?

8:30 am By Maegan La Mala · Food|Health · Comments Off

28 Jan 2009

mercuryglob.jpgDid you out some Smucker’s Strawberry Jelly on your toast this morning? How about a Nutra Grain Strawberry Cereal Bar or a Pop-Tarts Frosted Blueberry treat for those of you on the run? If so, then you may have gotten your daily dose of the element mercury.

People have been saying for years that products with high fructose corn syrup were bad, however most didn’t know why. Now there have been some studies released showing that some products with high fructose corn syrup contain mercury.

It turns out that many foods sweetened with HFCS contain mercury, left as a residue in the production of caustic soda, a key ingredient in HFCS. And worst of all, the FDA and the industry have known about this potential toxin and has continued serving it up since at least 2005.

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