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As anybody who has been reading Slashfood for a while can attest, one of our collective sore points is the dreaded high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). In general, we tend to blame this dietary crime against humanity on the corn industry, which pushes the vile concoction on us like a particularly unscrupulous crack dealer. However, in the broader scheme of things, it's also worth noting that the corn growers of America share the guilt with several other parties. For example, while they make the dreaded stuff, they don't force manufacturers to use it or consumers to buy it. In a similar vein, nobody is forcing the federal government to subsidize America's corn crop, which makes the stuff unbelievably cheap. Somewhere between the endless struggle to reduce manufacturing costs and the desperate search for less expensive foods, we all have to admit to some level of complicity in this culinary disaster.
With this sort of system-wide perspective in mind, Australia recently revised its national dietary guidelines, stressing greener, more sustainable, and healthier food. In many ways, this represents a concerted effort to change the entire culinary culture of a country, an incredibly ambitious goal. Presumably, as the country reconsiders its standards for growth, harvesting, transport, and consumption of foods, it will become easier for consumer to make healthy, economical, and ethical food choices.
As the land down under moves forward in this quest, hopefully America will follow its lead!
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2-04-2009 @11:39AM Alex said... As an expat Australian I'm really pleased to see this. Australians have been getting fatter and fatter so hopefully this will help stem the tide and get people more interested in the whole of the food chain.
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2-04-2009 @12:11PM Pyrofish said... The Michael Pollan books have been a real eye opener for me. Sometimes I forget sometimes that non-foodies, don't read this stuff. Or don't care to. It's good to see a whole nation seeing the light of a century of well-meaning-but-harmful nutritionism.
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2-04-2009 @12:29PM Dr. Electro said... Everybody should attend diabetes education classes. There you will learn from a licensed and certified nutritionist that carbohydrates are carbohydrates. It isn't the source of the carbs, it's the total carbs in the food that make the difference.
HFCS is an acceptable part or your diet as long as you count the coabohydrates in everything you eat and limit yourself to 45 to 60 grams of carb per meal. A snack carb budget is 15 to 20 grams.
It doesn't matter whether the carbohydrates come from corn, cane or potatoes. The effect is still the same. What makes HFCS dangerous is that the average consumer won't be bothered to try to limit their carbohydrate intake. They will just keep on stuffing their faces with whatever lands in front of them on a plate.
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