I was trying to avoid Girl Scout cookies. When asked about purchasing some I went to the Girl Scout website to see if they contained High Fructose Corn Syrup and / or Partially Hydrogenated Oils. Well, according to the website, yes. So I said no. I have two boxes of Thin Mints in my freezer so I don’t need any more. I get enough HFCS and trans-fat in my diet even though I try to avoid it. I don’t need to add to it. But, guess what, my hubby came home with FIVE boxes of cookies. I don’t know who he bought them from, but . . . now we have Girl Scout cookies in the house.
So I was looking at the boxes to see if these were the ones with the HFCS and trans-fat in them because some of them had it and some didn’t, but the thin mints we got didn’t have them. I thought that I was mistaken, but instead of going to the website I went to my freezer. The two boxes in my freezer have HFCS but the one my husband just bought, does not. And it turns out that the baker is different.
Freezer boxes: ABC Bakery (WITH High Fructose Corn Syrup AND Partially Hydrogenated Oil)
New box: Little Brownie (WITHOUT High Fructose Corn Syrup. But still contains Partially Hydrogenated Oil)
So, it can be done. Manufacturers CAN make products WITHOUT HFCS, we just have to make them do so.
Both bakeries use Partially Hydrogenated Oils, which we shouldn’t tolerate either.
Neither baker is near San Jose or California for that matter, so I don’t know why one baker is used over the other. But these are the Girl Scouts, I would hope that they were concerned about what ingredients are in their cookies.
So if you are interested in trying to avoid HFCS as much as possible check the baker and the box of your Girl Scout cookies.
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