What is Food Identity Theft?

Food Identity Theft is when a food manufacturer tries to deceive consumers with misleading words, ingredients, or pictures on their packages and advertising. They’re trying to convince us that their products are better or fresher or more nutritious when they’re not.

FoodIdentityTheft.com is a non-profit website that alerts consumers to these deceptions. It tells the truth about food ingredients and package labels so we can make the best decisions about the food we buy.

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About Citizens for Health

For almost 20 years, Citizens for Health has been the non-profit voice of the natural health consumer. Through its website and monthly newsletter to nearly 100,000 consumers, it provides important news to help them make informed choices about the products and services they purchase for themselves and their families.

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The High Fructose Corn Syrup Name Game

The companies that make High Fructose Corn Syrup want the U.S. government to let them legally change its name to the misleading “corn sugar” on thousands of grocery store food and beverage labels.

Millions of Americans are against this name change.

Letting High Fructose Corn Syrup call itself “corn sugar” (and eventually “sugar” if corporate corn has its way) would allow manufacturers to conceal this ingredient from consumers.

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Food Identity Theft Issues

High Fructose Corn Syrup Name Game

Blueberry Deception

Tomato Sauce Scam

Hidden MSG

The Corn Sugar Hoax

High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) is a cheap, highly-processed substitute for sugar that can be found in sodas, cereals, breads, juice, yogurt, ketchup, kids vitamins—even dog food—and hundreds of other grocery store products.

But a lot of shoppers don’t want it—and they’re choosing to not buy products that contain High Fructose Corn Syrup.

So to fool us, the companies that make High Fructose Corn Syrup want to change its name. They want to hide the High Fructose Corn Syrup on their package labels and call it “corn sugar” instead. That way we’ll never know that HFCS is in the products we buy.

Americans across the country do not want this name change. They are going to the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) website to tell the government to deny this name change that would let High Fructose Corn Syrup rename itself as “corn sugar.”
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