corn syrup in mayo?

[yendi]

So, I went to lunch with co-worker yesterday, and snagged his mayo packs for my cheeseburger. After eating it (sans bun, of course), I was flipping the mayo pack through my hands, and noticed that the ingredient list included "high-fructose corn syrup."

WTF?

Why the hell would mayo have that? And any idea how much could be in the mayo? I'm hoping it was minimal, but I'm just amazed. I know that the sugar in some jars of mayo isn't enough to affect blood sugar, but I know that corn syrup is a lot denser. And since I'd had a salad at lunch, I'd already used up my carbs for the day.

Comments

[shawnj.livejournal.com]

Something to note. You can discount fiber carb grams from your daily carb intake.

[yendi]

Yeah, but this was mostly iceberg lettuce and tomatoes -- not all fiber, alas.

Carbohydrate intake

[ealuscerwen.livejournal.com]

How much carbohydrate you can eat and remain ketotic is a personal thing. If you're not testing, start - then you can stop fretting and just get accustomed to the way your own body works. I can eat quite a lot of carbs and remain significantly ketotic, but my dad barely gets ketotic on no carbs at all.

(this is assuming you're trying to be ketotic - if not I apologise for the confusion)

Eal.

Re: Carbohydrate intake

[yendi]

I do need the strips -- I keep meaning to order them, and never do. It would defitely make me less stressy, I think.

[blueingenue.livejournal.com]

If you couldn't taste the sugar, then I'd say the content was pretty minimal.
If it's a branded mayonnaise, I can check the exact carb content when I get home.

And yes, fiber carbs don't count, because you don't really digest them. Vegetables tend to have a lot of their carbs as fiber instead of sugars/starches.

[terracinque.livejournal.com]

Other non-sweet things have sugar or corn syrup in them; ketchup, for example. It wouldn's surprise me to find it in mayo.

[yendi]

I knew about ketchup, but the mayo thing surprised me, since it's not traditionally something that benefits from sugar.

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

Almost everything these days has corn syrup in it. You have to read every label. Condiments, cereal, sauces, dressings, almost every snack food, sweet or savory . . . it's ridiculous.

We don't realize how sweetened things are now. I wouldn't use 'does it taste sweet' as a barometer unless you've been avoiding sweet food attentively for a few weeks. Your palate has to reset completely, and then you'll be irritated at how even meat and vegetables are typically sweetened. :P

[dwivian]

I second this -- I make my own mayonaise, and was ASTOUNDED at how bitter it tasted, at first....

Then, I added a little honey, and suddenly it tasted more familiar. I've weaned the sugar back out, but I had no idea how much could be in there!

[thebaronofmspg.livejournal.com]

High fructose corn syrup is the *DEVIL*... It's a frankenfood as far as I'm concerned. They put it in EVERYTHING here. It's horrifying.