King CornCorn and America's ObsessionKING CORN tells the story of two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. As the film unfolds, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, moveto the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help offriendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America's most-productive, most-ubiquitous grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to followtheir pile of corn into the food system, what they questions about how we eat—and how we farm.
Here is an excerpt of the producers of King Corn on CNN:
Popular foods and non-foods that contain corn:
Foods Containing Corn
Alcohol
Ale/Beer
Bacon
Baking Mixes
Baking Powders
Batters for frying
Beverages (sweetened)
Bleached White Flour
Breads & Pastries
Cakes
Catsup
Cookies
Corn Flakes
Cream Pies
Fritos
Frostings
Fruit (canned)
Fruit Drinks
Gelatin Desserts
Graham Crackers
Gravies
Grits
Gum
Hominy Grits
Ice Cream
Jams
Jellies
Infant Formula
Margarine
Meats (bologna, sausage)
Oleo
Peanut Butter
Popcorn
Powdered Sugar
Preserves
Puddings
Salas Dressings
Soups Soybean Milks
Syrups
Tortillas
Vinegar, Distilled
Wine
Ingredients that may indicate presence of corn:
Dextrose
Hydrolyzed Protein
Maltose
Maltodextrin
Modified Food Starch
Non Food Products Containing Corn:
Aspirin
Cough Syrups
Envelopes
Gelatin Capsules
Powders
Stamps
Starched Clothing
Talcums
Toothpaste
Vitamins
Knowledge is power people - recognize what foods you are eating and what is in it.
Check out more about King Corn at: http://www.kingcorn.net
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