11.15.07

Time for Another Edition of "Pointless Ingredients"

Posted in Food, Pointless Ingredients, Things That Suck at 12:31 pm by Jellyn

I went to buy some Tylenol Cold. They've changed the active ingredients, because it's just too dangerous to let us have pseudoephedrine anymore, so I looked over the package more carefully than I might have normally. And among the inactive ingredients, I found sucralose.

What the heck?

This is a pill that I'm going to swallow. I'm not going to suck on it, chew it, savor the wonderful flavor of a Tylenol Cold pill. If I even could taste it if I had a cold. I don't need it tasting all sweet and wonderful.

So why are they trying to dose me with fake sugar? I don't like the taste of sugar substitutes and I don't quite trust them either, so I try to avoid them. If they're going to randomly put them in my drugs, though, they're making it difficult!

(I bought a slightly different variety of Tylenol Cold - Rapid Release - which didn't seem to list sucralose. We'll see if it's effective when it comes down to it.)

11.03.07

"Healthy" Snack

Posted in Food, Pointless Ingredients, Things That Suck at 4:46 pm by Jellyn

Wheat Thins - Multi-Grain. Sounds super-healthy, doesn't it? "Excellent Source of Whole Grain" "0g Trans Fat" "May help reduce the risk of heart disease" "16g whole grain" "good source of fiber" "no cholesterol"

Except it contains sugar and high fructose corn syrup.

Which starts a new category for my blog: Things that have high fructose corn syrup (h-f corn syrup).

Edit: I changed the category to Pointless Ingredients, because it's broader and looks nicer.