Can You Give Up High Fructose Corn Syrup and Emulsifiers?

[Bolt_Upright]

I consider the Daily Mail my medical advice bible (just kidding) but check this out: I'm a doctor on the frontlines of America's colon cancer crisis - I believe two ingredients found in 'healthy' foods are to blame - dailymail.co.uk/health/arti...

Okay, I don't really care about cancer. I care about my microbiome and my intestinal permeability.

The two ingredients this doctor talks about are:

High Fructose Corn Syrup: Damages your microbiome.

Emulsifiers: Damages your intestinal barrier.

Emulsifiers are common additives that help give dairy-free and low- and non-fat foods their combined and creamy texture. Ice cream and cream cheese are some of the most common foods containing these additives.

Common emulsifiers include soy lecithin, sucralose, xanthan gum, carrageenan, maltodextrin and polysorbate, all of which appear on ingredient labels.

If you know me, you know I eat Ice Cream. I'm happy to say that the Ice Cream I eat, Breyers Chocolate Strawberry Vanilla, has Sugar instead of Corn Syrup and Tara Gum (peruvian carob) instead of Xanthan Gum: breyers.com/us/en/p/vanilla... (it's cheap too!)

[WhyRBD]

I definitely have determined emulsifiers cause my iRBD events. I have eliminated both - corn syrup and emulsifiers. I make my own ice cream with a Ninja Creami - 4 ingredients: Cacao - Banana (ripe) - coconut milk or A2 milk - cream coconut or A2 half and half. Experimenting with xylitol but have some concern because of recent studies. If you can tolerate sweet potatoes (1 ) with no iRBD events, then I have made one with sweet potatoes (1), ripe bananas with or without skin - organic (1.5), cinnimon (teaspoon), milk/cream (1 cup). Normally does not need any sweetener. Many coconut milkes contain emulsifiers so read the labels

[Ghmac]

Bolt - you really need to try the So delicious coconut milk chocolate covered ice cream bars with a touch of carmel. It has guar gum.

[Bolt_Upright in reply to Ghmac]

Hmm... I'm no fun at a party:

Ingredients: Non-Dairy Frozen Dessert (Organic Coconutmilk [Filtered Water, Organic Coconut Cream], Organic Cane Sugar, Organic Coconut Oil, Organic Tapioca Syrup, Pea Protein, Locust Bean Gum, Guar Gum, Natural Flavor), Chocolate Coating (Cane Sugar, Coconut Oil, Chocolate Liquor, Organic Sunflower Oil, Cocoa [Processed With Alkali], Cocoa Butter), Almonds, Organic Toasted Coconut.

A little concerned about the Sunflower Oil (which is a seed oil). "Omega-6s are found in oils such as corn, safflower, sunflower, soy and vegetable and products made with those oils. Excess consumption of omega-6s can trigger the body to produce pro-inflammatory chemicals, and the American diet tends to be very high in omega-6s."

Guar Gum-Induced Changes in Gut Microbiota Metabolic Activity and Intestinal Immune Response Augments Susceptibility to Experimental Colitis 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl...

"Collectively, our study demonstrates that food additive guar gum adversely impacts the gut microbiota activity and colonic immune response and increases susceptibility to colonic inflammation."

[MarionP in reply to Bolt_Upright]

If you ever were to try milk that is gluten free, on its own and in ice cream, it is really sweet tasting all on it's own and doesn't taste thin one bit unless you go with the lowest percentage of milk fat, which kind of defeats the idea of ice cream. And if where you live you can get ice cream that is also gluten free, it's almost too smooth and sweet. Almost.

[Bolt_Upright in reply to MarionP]

Thanks. Milk is naturally gluten free.

I don't really drink milk, but from what I have read low fat dairy is less healthy than full fat dairy. We have about 65 years of really bad govt diet advice we need to clean out of our brains.

I agree with you on low fat milk defeating the whole point of ice cream.

[MarionP in reply to Bolt_Upright]

I misspoke, I had meant to say lactose free, not gluten-free.

[Bolt_Upright in reply to MarionP]

Ah. Lactose free is interesting. Another rabbit hole to explore

[Ghmac]

The box I have: Ingredients: cashew milk (filtered water, cashews), can sugar, coconut and/or sunflower oil,organic tapioca syrup, chocolate liquor, 2% or less of: cocoa (processed with Alkali), pea protein, cocoa butter, sea salt, locust bean gum, natural flavor, organic molasses, guar gum, organic cocoa butter, sodium citrte, carmel syrup, salt, pectin. a bit different but still with guar gum, but not dairy.......

[Bolt_Upright]

And still, maybe, with Sunflower Oil: "coconut and/or sunflower oil".

I appreciate the thought though. Thanks.

[Smittybear7]

Thanks for sharing!