The other evening it was my night to cook so I got dinner from KFC along with some packets of "honey" to top off my biscuits.When I arrived home I noticed that what I thought was honey was actually something that KFC calls "honey sauce." This struck me as odd. Isn't honey already a sauce, courtesy of Mother Nature? I glanced at the ingredients.
Mother Nature's sole ingredient in honey is, well, honey. But that's not the case with "honey sauce" from KFC.
Honey was actually the 4th ingredient, right behind "sugar" and "corn syrup." The main ingredient was "high fructose corn syrup" or HFCS. Kind of made me think that KFC should have named this "High Fructose Corn Syrup Sauce." I guess Honey Sauce sounds better.
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The ingredients is sad. It is listed below with the largest in quantity listed first:- High fructose corn syrup
- Sugar
- Honey (11%, according to front of the packet)
- Corn syrup (again?)
- Natural Flavors
- Caramel Color
This means that up to 89% of the sauce is a combination of corn syrup and sugars.
Gross! I just discovered this when I was about to add it to my tea. Horrible.
ReplyDeleteThe packet I got today had High fructose corn syrup, Corn Syrup, Sugar, THEN honey (7% honey according to the front of the packet).
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