How much stuff is in my food? March 15, 2009 10:13 AM  
Subscribe  How much stuff, proportionally, is in my food?  What
proportion of the ingredients listed on my food are actually
present? When my 2 litre bottle of Coke puts "high fructose corn
syrup" right after "water," is it possible to estimate (or be
reasonable certain about) how many grams of HFCS I'm actually
consuming?  This question isn't particular to HFCS. I'm trying
to keep to the take Michael Pollan's advice to heart, and I'd
like to eat as much real food that my great-grandparents would
have recognized as possible. Are reasonably precise amounts of
ingredients publicly available information? Is the USDA
nutrition info all we have to rely on? posted by awenner to food
& drink (21 answers total) The only thing that they are required
is to list them in order of proportion. So if "HFCS" is after
"Water", then the amount of HFCS is less than the amount of
Water. posted by leafxor at 10:21 AM on March 15, 2009  I think
part of the meaning of Pollan's