Monday, February 6, 2012

"Sugar, ah, honey honey."

Saturday we had fast food take-out: Kentucky Fried Chicken.  (Okay... I am not saying it was a healthy choice, but some days just don't come out as perfect as we'd like.)  Included with our chicken was a packet labeled: Honey Sauce.

Honey Sauce?  What in the world?  So I picked up the packet to read the contents.

HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, CORN SYRUP, [yes, two kinds of corn syrup], SUGAR, HONEY, FRUCTOSE, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF: CARAMEL COLOR, MOLASSES, WATER, CITRIC ACID, NATURAL AND ARTIFICAL FLAVOR, MALIC ACID.       
7% REAL HONEY.


Hmmm... honey sauce with only 7% honey. Hmmm... since it's the fourth ingredient listed, that means almost 93% of the "honey" sauce is made up of two kinds of corn syrup and sugar!

Since when do we need to add corn syrups, sugar, fructose, and molasses to honey?  When did honey become not sweet enough on its own?  Sad.

2 comments:

  1. Honey's too expensive on its own, so they use the other sweeteners to dilute it and make it cheaper.

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  2. High Fructose Corn Syrup has been added it to just about everything. Not good.

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