Post Raisin Bran Gets Rid of the High Fructose Corn Syrup and Makes My Day
72Raisin Bran is my favorite cereal. High fructose corn syrup used to be in both brand name products, but Post has been my favorite brand of raisin bran since the day I read the labels and discovered Kellogg's product is made in Mexico these days, not in Battle Creek, Michigan. Post makes theirs in St. Louis, Missouri.
I'd been out of raisin bran for a while, but today was Wal-Mart day. When the big purple Post Raisin Bran box jumped off the shelf and into my hand, imagine my amazement at seeing a new blue banner splashed across the front:
Contains NO HIGH FRUCTOSE Corn syrup
unlike Kellogg's® Raisin Bran
Now, there's some likeable advertising, telling you what you need to know and sticking it right in the competition's face. You go, Post!
I was so tickled about this, I could hardly stand myself. Everything's got high fructose corn syrup in it these days despite the many warnings out there for anybody who cares to Google the stuff. If you're not an ultra super fanatic, label reading, grow your own food turbo-vegan, you're consuming that particular sweetener whether you know it or not.
Most sodas: Ingredient #1: Carbonated water. Ingredient #2: High fructose corn syrup.
Okay, you probably knew about that one. How about:
Kroger Seedless Blackberry Preserves: Ingredient #1: Blackberries. Ingredient #2: High fructose corn syrup.
It's everywhere! It's everywhere!
But not in Post Raisin Bran. Not any more, it's not!
The news was so awesome, it just had to be shared. Over in the soda aisle, where I was picking up more two-liter bottles of Coca Cola and Dr. Thunder, both loaded with high fructose corn syrup (not to mention phosphoric acid, which eats bones, I accosted a woman shopping with her teenaged daughter in tow.
"Have you seen this? You've got to see this!" I grabbed the box of Post Raisin Bran out of my cart and shoved it in her face. "Look at that! No high fructose corn syrup! They had it in there last month, but now they don't! How awesome is that!"
"Uh, yeah, that's good," she said, nervously scuttling along to get away from the madman. "That's really good."
"Did you notice this?" I accosed the checkout cashier, waving the box left to right to left so that her eyes crossed trying to focus on the blurry thing. "No high fructose corn syrup! They took it out!"
She had her finger on the Call Security button by the time I scooted out the door, treasure in hand, cackling like Doctor Doofenshmirtz of the Phineas and Ferb show, convinced his latest Raisin Braninator will make him the absolute ruler of the Tri-State Area.
Ingredients
So, what's the total ingredient list for Post Raisin Bran? Surely, they must have stuck something bad in there, right? After all, everybody does.
Nunh-uh! Here's the list:
1. Whole grain wheat
2. Raisins
3. Wheat bran
4. Sugar
5. Wheat flour
6. Malted barley flour
7. Salt
That's it. No food dyes and no high fructose corn syrup.
Now, where did I put that bowl? No, honey, the big one.
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My hubby is diabetic, try finding anything that he is allowed to eat. If it doesn't have sugar, it has that nutra sweet poison in it.
Nice post. Now I feel like I need some Raisin Bran though. :)
way to go helthy man
Raisin bran is one of my favorites although I prefer it sans raisins. I definitely advocate avoiding HFC. Voted up and useful.
That's also why sodas no longer taste as good as they used to!
lavender3957: Thanks.
Becky: The diabetic has it tough, no doubt about. My Dad was (along with Parkinson's), and Mom used to bake "sugar free cookies" for him. They were absolutely inedible.
Sean: Yes indeed. Me too.
marialeon: Working on it.
oldocoincollector: LOL! I'll take the raisins sans bran before doing it the other way around.
WillStarr: Yeah, I figured that out a while back.
Ah, there is hope out there. However I just found out that my multi-vitamin has ingredients considered toxic!
Not to tout the virtues of Mexico, but did you know that the Coca-Cola bottled there is made with SUGAR and NOT high-fructose corn syrup? We used to buy it in Chicago for just that reason. Who'da thunk you were a health nut, Fred? Great hub! And, funny! I can just see the frightened looks on the faces of your fellow grocery store patrons...lol
BPop: Yuck!
Mo: I didn't know about the Mexican Coca-Cola.
I don't exactly qualify as a health nut per se but did make my living marketing (multi level marketing, no less) alternative health products for one 20-year stretch. Also, Pam's health is so fragile that I MUST inspect the label on any ingestable that HAS a label.
But I still believe in junk food! And ribeye steaks! Real butter! Coffee!!
Etc. :)
Yeah, I'm pretty sure the folks who encountered me in that mode went home happy that I wasn't their next door neighbor, for sure.
That makes perfect sense to me. We keep an eye on stuff for Michael's sake as well. Sodium levels especially. We had no idea how much sodium is in certain stuff until we started watching the labels - EGADS! We are the same way with real butter - primarily because neither of us has cholesterol issues and you can get REAL butter unsalted. Coffee is a must! You're a man after my own heart. :D Hello to Pam, btw. How's she doing now that the fires are over?
Ah, salt! I go through LOTS of salt. Mostly sea salt, and use a kelp supplement to snag some iodine (which sea salt lacks). WANT SODIUM!
Especially since our muscles run on a sodium-potassium pump.
Works for me!
Pam is doing better with her breathing, definitely. There are always health issues, but the fire impact is over.
Fred, you know what I'm buying next trip? LOL Hey I was going to Mexico and bringing back cases of coke in the old bottles, made with sugar the old way! Will told me Sams had it and now I get it here. It's the true classic, you chug a cold one and it burns your nose and makes a burp loud as a shot gun, just like the old days! I love that sugar from cane, it's easier on a diabetic too. great post he he, dust
Heck Ghost, I don't even like raisin bran, but you got me all fired up....I am fighting the urge to jump up and go to the grocery store and get me a box.....
I bought some Mt. Dew a few weeks ago, and they had the old style of bottle and logo....and it was made with sugar...I had to buy me some...and it really did taste better....you kind of slowly forget just how much better things DID taste.
GO POST!
Dusty: Thanks! Super-really thanks, because we're supposed to be getting a Sam's here in Sierra Vista. Sooner or later. Word was, when Wal-Mart built the new superstore, the old building would get converted.
No sign of it yet, but....
CMerritt: Wow. Mountain Dew? Guess you've returned the favor--I don't even like Mountain Dew, and now you've got me fired up to go get a case.
I don't slowly forget. CAN'T. Grit my nonexistent teeth with every sip of the inferior stuff.
Very funny hub. Ribeye steaks,butter and coffee are health food,aren't tthey?? Voted up and funny. I need some raisen brand.
Glad you like. I need a steak.
I like how the experts go back and forth. HCS is really bad for you. The next time it's just the same as regular cane sugar. Then it's the cause of all evil in the world. Now bran is rid of it; how interesting.
Yay! Good to know! I'm gonna check my Kellogg's Corn Flakes now, and see what's in 'em and where they're made! :)
flagostomos: Interesting indeed.
Cookinmom: Please do report back with your findings!
Just checked the other two remaining cereal boxes in our pantry:
1. A Quaker Oats product, Cap'n Crunch's Peanut Butter Crunch: Sugar, no HFCS. It's still a corn product, though not a corn syrup product. And it's impossible to tell where it's made, since the box only says, "Distributed by" Quaker Oats out of Chicago. Hmmm...
2. Kellogg's Frosted Mini-Wheats Bite Size. Sugar AND High Fructose Corn Syrup. Whoa! They've ALSO hidden the country of manufacture by stating ONLY "Distributed by".
S'pose they've all taken so much flack for outsourcing to Mexico that the Obama administration helped them hide it from the average lay investigator (i.e. label reader)...?
A suspicious mind thinks he already knows....
Careful, Ghost... Getting this excited over a cereal box could be the first step to permanent residence in a rubber room. You're wayyyy too easily entertained...like I am when I find a non-food item in Wally World that's NOT made in China. Woo hoo!!! Notify the news crews! ;D
I'm feeling MUCH better NOW! LOL!
Don't know how I could have been functioning optimally before reading this article, Fred. Thanks for the newsflash re Raisin Bran and Coke. Going out to stock up now.
Cool But remember, we're being told it's only the cases of Coke in the old bottles, bottled in Mexico. The rest of them do have the high fructose corn syrup. :)
I am really so glad to find this out-the last time I looked at the ingredients of both Post & Kellogs they had it in there and I thought-oh great, now I have to find another brand & I probably won't like it. So thanks for the info-I'm going to put on my grocery list right away.
Happy to be of service, Laurel.
Come to think of it, I haven't eaten yet today. Time for some Post's Raisin Bran!
lavender3957 9 months ago
Fantastic hub, I love this kind of cereral. Great post!