Alexander Jack

  I’m puzzled how this bread company considers their bread to be 100% whole wheat.  I’m sure they have followed the FDA guidelines and if so, they are too lax. The second highest ingredient behind water is High Fructose Corn Syrup.  Even thought the label, font, graphic, and name suggest it, I cannot not imaging a Pennsylvanian Dutch bread maker pouring High Fructose Corn Syrup onto their “stone grinding wheels.”  If you have seen the pro-HFCS commercials, they casually state “it is fine in moderation, just like sugar” with the same regulated disclosures pharmaceutical companies use.  On the subject, did you know the current recommended caloric intake for sugar can be up to 25%!?

The consensus among nutritionists is that we eat too much sugar, and should not eat more than 10% of our calories from sugar. When the World Health Organization recommended that, the sugar lobby went ballistic, and got U.S. Senators to threaten to kill its funding. Now the FDA recommendation is to get 25% of your diet from sugar.

Watch the Lawrence Lessig video here: Corruption Alpha: Sugar @8:22

There is a little salvation however.  The topic is highly public and is in the cross-hairs of the Consumer Science for the Public Interest.  View  the report: Finding the Best Sliced Bread