{"id":825,"date":"2009-02-17T13:06:56","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T21:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.TripInsuranceStore.com\/blog\/?p=825"},"modified":"2009-02-17T13:06:56","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T21:06:56","slug":"does-high-fructose-corn-syrup-contain-mercury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/does-high-fructose-corn-syrup-contain-mercury\/","title":{"rendered":"Does High-Fructose Corn Syrup Contain Mercury?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"right\"><a title=\"Subscribe to my Wall Street Journal Recommended Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/wCXYr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Subscribe<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong>Most Common Source of Calories in U.S. is LOADED With Mercury!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Mercola.com\" href=\"http:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2009\/02\/14\/Most-Common-Source-of-Calories-in-US-is-LOADED-With-Mercury.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source: Dr. Mercola<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Almost half of tested samples of commercial high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) contained mercury, according to a new study. Mercury was also found in nearly a third of 55 popular brand-name food and beverage products where HFCS is the first- or second-highest labeled ingredient.<\/p>\n<p>HFCS has replaced sugar as the sweetener in many beverages and foods. A high consumer can take in about 20 teaspoons of HFCS per day. The chemical was found most commonly in HFCS-containing dairy products, dressings and condiments.<\/p>\n<p>The use of mercury-contaminated caustic soda in the production of HFCS is common.<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest of <a title=\"Mercola.com\" href=\"http:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2009\/02\/14\/Most-Common-Source-of-Calories-in-US-is-LOADED-With-Mercury.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Mercola&#8217;s article to find out how Mercury gets into corn syrup<\/a>.book<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subscribe Most Common Source of Calories in U.S. is LOADED With Mercury! Source: Dr. Mercola Almost half of tested samples of commercial high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) contained mercury, according to a new study. Mercury was also found in nearly a third of 55 popular brand-name food and beverage products where HFCS is the first- or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350],"tags":[68,77,122,154,159,160,205,296],"class_list":["post-825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expert-travel-insurance-advice","tag-children","tag-corn-syrup","tag-family","tag-health","tag-high-fructose","tag-high-fructose-corn-syrup","tag-mercury","tag-sugar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}