Sugar Chart

[Tammy]

I just looked over your chart and I would like to point out that in the US, when an ingredient label just says corn syrup, it is almost always fructose added corn syrup. I have contacted many companies and been told the same thing. Even though it only says corn syrup, it is NOT ok. Holsum and Strohmans both have told me that both of them and the entire baking industry uses high fructose corn syrup in the breads.

And if you check bottles of corn syrup, such as Karo, you will see where it also contains fructose.

The only place you can get pure corn syrup is sometimes health food stores, or here in PA, some Amish stores have it.

But if ANY packaged food in the US just says corn syrup, it should be avoided. Regina got sick one time and the only thing we could find was her hot dogs said just corn syrup.

Another note, Although Saccharin is unhealthy for cancer reasons, it is actually safe for HFI from a sugar standpoint.

Since most everyone is hesitant on the sugar alcohols, make sure you double check some of my name brand stuff. We were originally allowed all but sorbitol, so I allow Maltitol. I'm sure I probably put her chocolate muffins on. But another good point to always double check everything for yourself. What I may allow, you may not.

[Tammy]

Sorry but the Amish stores aren't going to be any help by mail order. You'd have to visit them. They don't have phones, and most of them don't even have electricity. They light the places with gas lights. And just for info sake, they do speak english when you are in the store, but when speaking to each other, they speak in Pennsylvania Dutch. It is a cross of some kind between dutch and german, or so I'm told.

And to be honest, I've never found the corn syrup to be helpful anyway. You can't keep it too long or it becomes buggy. It is much easier to just use dextrose for anything that I make.

You can also get dextrose in the "make your own beer" places. I know there are some websites that you can order it from, but I don't happen to know what they are. And you can store dextrose for years and not have a problem. About the same as sugar.

[kerrynz]

Hi all

Just a quick question please can anyone tell me is galactose good bad or ugly.

Its in a yogurt i want to try as we still don't have one she can tolerate we went close with one by adding saccrine but she rejected it after a few goes and wont eat any with a bitter taste.

This one is home made and i can add the dextrose to smooth out the bitter if galactose is ok?

Kerryn

[nancyrandall]

Have not heard of Galactose but, we use Old Home Plain Yogurt (don't know if it is available in your area) and add Dextrose. I also add pixi sticks for sugar and color. I have found that I had to add more sugar when we started and now he almost eats it plain.
Nancy

[Tammy]

galactose is part of lactose, so yes, it should be fine. It is a dairy sugar. If you goggle galactose it will give you many articles saying it's dairy.

We can also get a plain yogurt, but Regina doesn't care for it. She will eat it if I add pudding to it. So I just give her the pudding.