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<\/a>\nA couple of weeks ago <\/a>\nA couple of weeks ago Melanie Warner predicted this<\/a>,\nand now it’s happened:\n\nLess is More: Hunt’s Ketchup Removes High Fructose Corn Syrup From Entire Retail Line<\/a>\n\nOMAHA, Neb., May 17 \/PRNewswire-FirstCall\/ — Hunt’s\u00ae, a ConAgra Foods brand, is pleased to announce that it has removed the high fructose corn syrup from every bottle of its ketchup products. Hunt’s 100% Natural Ketchup brings forth the naturally rich tomato flavor of Hunt’s tomatoes and contains only five simple ingredients: tomatoes, sugar, vinegar, salt and other seasonings, with no high fructose corn syrup, artificial ingredients or preservatives.\n\n“In direct response to consumer demand(1), Hunt’s is pleased to offer ketchup sweetened with sugar and containing only five simple ingredients,” said Ryan Toreson, Hunt’s Ketchup brand manager. “Parents are looking for wholesome meals and ingredients they recognize\u2014and the taste of Hunt’s ketchup is something both kids and adults love. Even with the new recipe, we have maintained the same great tangy, sweet taste that Hunt’s has always had and that consumers tell us they prefer.”\n<\/blockquote>\nThis is the same ConAgra \nthat said:<\/a>\n
\n\u201cOur focus is on consumer preference, not the science.\u201d\n<\/blockquote>\nThat would be the science that said<\/a>:\n\n“When rats are drinking high-fructose corn syrup at levels well below those in soda pop, they’re becoming obese — every single one, across the board. Even when rats are fed a high-fat diet, you don’t see this; they don’t all gain extra weight.”\n<\/blockquote>\nSo a corporation that doesn’t care about science that says a key ingredient\nin their product makes rats fat, every one of them, in ways that produce\nthe same risk factors that in humans contribute to high blood pressure,\ncoronary artery disease, cancer, and diabetes, that same corporation does\ncare when its customers say they don’t want that ingredient.\n\nAs ConAgra says in the press release:\n
\n(1) The 2009 HealthFocus\u00ae Trend Report indicated consumer concern over high fructose corn syrup has risen from 27% of shoppers being extremely or very concerned in 2004 to 45% of shoppers in 2008.\n<\/blockquote>\nVoting at the supermarket checkout works.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A couple of weeks ago Melanie Warner predicted this, and now it’s happened: Less is More: Hunt’s Ketchup Removes High Fructose Corn Syrup From Entire Retail Line OMAHA, Neb., May 17 \/PRNewswire-FirstCall\/ — Hunt’s\u00ae, a ConAgra Foods brand, is pleased to announce that it has removed the high fructose corn syrup from every bottle of […]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8,40,42,44,845,73],"tags":[380,1475,1226,932,1479,1476,2836,1480,1219,1473,1474,1482,1478,1481,2790,1477],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agrochemicals","category-economy","category-food-and-drink","category-health","category-hfcs","category-science","tag-cancer","tag-conagra","tag-coronary-artery-disease","tag-diabetes","tag-fat","tag-healthfocus","tag-hfcs","tag-high-blood-pressure","tag-high-fructose-corn-syrup","tag-hunts","tag-ketchup","tag-melanie-warner","tag-rats","tag-ryan-toreson","tag-science","tag-shoppers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Gj0O-7l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}