Avoiding Corn

Corn Products

• Corn
• Corn chips
• Corn flakesCorn flour
• Corn fritters
• Corn gluten
• Cornmeal
• Corn oil or margarine made from corn oil
• Corn puff cereal
• Cornstarch
• Corn sugar (dextrose, Dyno, Cerelose, Puretose, Sweetose, and glucose are all possibilities)
• Corn sweetener
• Corn syrup
• Corn syrup solids
• Corn tortillas
• Grits
• Hominy
• Maize
• Polenta
• Popcorn
• Taco shells
• Tortilla chips

Corn Derivatives

• Artificial flavoring
• Artificial sweeteners
• Caramel, caramel color
• Dextrose
• Food starch
• Fructose
• Glucose
• High fructose corn syrup
• Juice
• Milks – dairy, rice, soy, oat
• Soda – regular and diet
• Hydrolyzed corn
• Hydrolyzed corn protein
• Hydrolyzed vegetable protein
• Maltodextrin
• Xanthan gum

Ingredients Likely to Contain Corn

• American wines
• Whiskey, gin, beer, ale
• Baking powder
• Breaded or fried foods
• Breads (often dusted with cornmeal)
• Brown sugar (ok if no caramel color added)
• Confectioner’s sugar
• English muffins
• Fruit juice concentrate
• Golden syrup
• Graham crackers
• Honey (may contain high fructose corn syrup)
• Ice cream, sherbets
• Iodized salt
• Infant formulas
• Meats such as cold cuts, ham, hot dogs
• Molasses (some brands have added corn syrup)
• Pancake syrups
• Sweetened peanut butters (may use corn syrup as a sweetener)
• Powdered sugar
• Salad dressings
• Packaged sauces
• Starch (any kind that’s not specified on the label)
• Succotash
• Sugar not identified as cane or beet
• Talc
• Tamales
• Vegetable oils (often contain some corn oil)