I thought I was having a pretty good corn-free day…except for that chicken egg and leftover tortilla soup.
I even riffled through my medicine cabinets reading labels. Scary. But other than my multivitamin (c0rn starch) and a couple Burt’s Bees hand creams that contain minimal amounts of the vaguely worded “vegetable oil” (my guess is corn, otherwise they would have listed soy b/c soy is totally in these days), no other traces of processed corn so far.
However, I’m hardly in the clear. I’m guessing my drive to Trader Joe’s and Aldi would be no no’s for Curt and Ian if they were going completely corn free. But they’re only tracking food from what I can see on their blog.
Still, in Illinois almost 300 million bushels of corn are harvested each year to produce ethanol.
And according to stats I found, some 95 percent of the gas in the Chicago area is 10 percent ethanol.
The only way I can see to totally avoid processed corn is to hike it or bike it.
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