Monday, February 23, 2015

Dr. Valoy With The Interesting Truth

     Apparently, there is something that's surprising, but I think some of you already knew about it. Do you know how many soft drinks contain high-fructose corn syrup? Well, fruit punch contains this ingredient and I wonder if it affects the taste of it.
     First, lets go way back to how corn is grown. According to "The Omnivore's Dilemma", there are four different food chains. The different food chains are Industrial, which is  when a single crop that is grown in a giant field, Industrial Organic, which is similar to Industrial, but grown with natural fertilizer, Local Sustainable, which is grown locally on farms and Hunter-Gatherer, which is hunting for food. These can be different ways to grow corn. On farms, they can breed corn for specific traits that can help them grow. Then, there were scientists who added genes in the DNA of corn. Some farmers didn't agree to this most likely because it wasn't natural. So it's cool how this kind of corn can be in soft drinks, such as fruit punch, and we don't taste it.
     Many other drinks and foods contain this ingredient, but you usually don't taste that specific ingredient directly. Maybe corn syrup does affect the taste of drinks that we usually drink. 

 This is the Fruit Punch.

2 comments:

  1. love your explanation! me too, i wonder how fruit punch would taste without the corn syrup. Great post!

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  2. Omg ! I love this juice! Very intriguing to read about. Great pic!

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