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Non-High Fructose Corn Syrup Diet

High fructose corn syrup is a sweetener that finds its way into any number of common processed foods readily sold at restaurants and supermarkets. Nutritionally similar to sugar, high fructose corn syrup can impede your dieting efforts by raising blood sugar levels and triggering unwanted fat storage. Avoiding the consumption of high fructose corn syrup is not easy, but it can be done with a bit of persistence.

  1. Non-High Fructose Diet

    • Consume a diet that contains nothing but natural, unprocessed foods to avoid the consumption of high fructose corn syrup. This means limiting your food intake to natural items such as fresh fruits, vegetables and lean meats while avoiding processed items, frozen foods, sugary items, fried foods and the like. To guarantee that absolutely no high fructose corn syrup enters your diet, prepare all of your own meals using only fresh and natural ingredients. Note that in addition to being present in the foods you would expect, such as candies and other sugar-containing products, high fructose corn syrup is in a number of items you would not, such as breads, rolls and other seemingly "safe" items you would not think require the uses of a sweetener. When in doubt, always remember to check the labeling information and ingredients for the presence of high-fructose corn syrup. (HFCS) When you find an item you must purchase at the store (such as bread products), compare and contrast the different brands to either find an item that contains no HFCS or one that contains the least amount. Remember that product listings are placed in order of the highest content, so find the lesser evil by looking for the product that has HFCS listed near the end of the ingredient list.

    Non-HFCS Diet Menu

    • A day's worth of HFCS-free dieting is as follows. For breakfast, make yourself several eggs cooked to order along with a serving of low-fat or reduced-fat breakfast meat and a piece or two of fresh fruit. For lunch, prepare yourself a sandwich on homemade bread (or low/non-HFCS store-bought bread) consisting of fresh turkey or chicken served with lettuce, tomato, onion and mayo. For dinner, eat your favorite type of seafood served with a bowl of brown rice, a garden salad, and a fresh vegetable medley. For non-HFCS snacks throughout the day, stick to assorted dried fruits, nuts and cheeses.

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