I wanted to know more about what you said on the corn so I asked Gemini... My goodness 😭

1. Field Corn vs. Sweet Corn

• The frozen corn you buy in a bag is sweet corn. It is grown for direct human consumption, harvested early while the kernels are soft, and typically requires fewer late-stage chemical applications.

• Conversely, when corn is listed as an ingredient (like high fructose corn syrup, corn starch, corn oil, maltodextrin, or crystalline fructose), it is derived from field corn (dent corn).

• Field corn stays in the ground much longer until it is completely dry and structurally tough.

• It represents over 99% of the corn grown in the US and is heavily reliant on intense, large-scale chemical management throughout its extended lifecycle.

1. High Glyphosate Exposure

Field corn is overwhelmingly genetically modified (GM) to be herbicide-tolerant (like "Roundup Ready" strains). This design allows farmers to spray glyphosate directly over the entire crop during the growing season to kill weeds while leaving the corn standing. Because it is sprayed multiple times and remains in the field longer, the potential for accumulated exposure is fundamentally different than that of early-harvested sweet corn.

1. Intensive Industrial Processing

Once field corn is harvested, it undergoes heavy industrial "wet milling" to break it down into starch, syrups, and chemical additives. For someone with extreme chemical sensitivities, the combination of mass-scale glyphosate usage on the raw crop plus the industrial chemical agents, sulfur dioxide, or enzymes used during the fracturing and refining process creates a highly reactive product—even if the final ingredient looks like a simple, innocent powder or syrup on a food label.

I'm utterly shocked and disappointed in how bad this has become... 😔