HW . 7 chapter 1

Michael Pollan, The Omnivores Dilemma The Secrets Behind What You Eat, Chapter 1:

            Most of the Products that Americans use today are made with corn from food to cosmetics.  Corn is in everything we eat and hidden with names such as Maltodextrin, Monosodium etc. which are all made from corn. It’s the biggest crop planted in America and has even put farm workers out of a jobs. Corn has become so popular because it is able to adapt easily and grow all around.   A quote that I found very interesting was “read the label on any processed food, and corn is what you’ll find. Corn is in the non-dairy creamer, and the Cheez Whiz, the frozen yogurt and the TV dinner, the canned fruit and the ketchup. . .” I was surprised to find out that corn was in most of the food that I eat and not even noticing it. That’s something you would never guess but it makes sense because the animals where your food comes from their feed corn so obviously it’s going to be in your food too, but it just never crossed my mind that it’s in so much. Even in vegetables the wax coating is made from corn. I also found interesting that most of the weird chemicals that you see on the labels of things are made from corn. But why not put that it’s corn and not weird names that people can’t pronounce or know?