{"id":10690,"date":"2010-02-28T11:32:52","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T15:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=10690"},"modified":"2010-02-28T11:32:52","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T15:32:52","slug":"sushi-unrolled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2010\/02\/sushi-unrolled\/","title":{"rendered":"Sushi Unrolled"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember my sushi love post<\/a> where I talked about my new found adoration for sushi?<\/p>\n

Well my bubble has since burst and I’m sort of bumming out about it now.<\/p>\n

Scott and I have successfully eliminated HFCS<\/abbr> from our diets.\u00a0 It’s been about two years now since we’ve made the cut.<\/p>\n

Last Friday Scott wanted to get sushi and then spend Friday evening gaming.\u00a0 We are currently playing Army of Two The 40th Day and both of us were itching to get back to it.\u00a0 We didn’t discuss getting sushi out-loud because every time we do, the weather turns to crap and we end up not being able to get any.<\/p>\n

Friday, the weather was crap but we were still able to get out and pick some up.\u00a0 We did not go to a sushi restaurant, we just picked up some sushi from Kroger. We had to go anyway for a few staples so picking up dinner was an easy and tasty option.<\/p>\n

This is when my sushi joy came crashing down.\u00a0 I read the ingredients on the box and discovered that the rice vinegar they use contains HFCS<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n

They do not use straight rice vinegar but seasoned rice vinegar.\u00a0 The seasoned either contains HFCS<\/abbr> or sugar.\u00a0 Sometimes both. I know this because I went investigating after my discovery.\u00a0 Kroger uses one that has HFCS<\/abbr> in it.<\/p>\n

Peachy.<\/p>\n

I ate my sushi anyway because that was dinner but I detested the fact that I was still eating it.\u00a0 Naturally it didn’t taste as good because how could I enjoy myself knowing what I know now?<\/p>\n

Scott tried to ease the situation by explaining that the amount we were actually taking in was a very low amount and he’s right.\u00a0 But that’s not the point, though.\u00a0 The point being, I have successfully avoided that ingredient for years now and yet it pops up where you least expect it.<\/p>\n

It shows me that I have to be super on guard and that I must always read ingredient listings.\u00a0 It didn’t even occur to me that there would be HFCS<\/abbr> in that sushi.\u00a0 To me the ingredients seemed simple and honest.\u00a0 I didn’t even consider that there would be HFCS<\/abbr> in the vinegar of all places.\u00a0 Because I just assumed, it came back to haunt me.<\/p>\n

I would be lying if I said that I wasn’t really annoyed and disappointed about this turn of events.<\/p>\n

But it also makes me curious about sushi in general.\u00a0 Would a restaurant use that same kind of vinegar?\u00a0 Even if I order sushi from a nice restaurant, am I risking eating HFCS<\/abbr> because of the type of vinegar they decide to use?\u00a0 I can’t really ask them, “Excuse me, but could you tell me the ingredients in the vinegar you use?”<\/p>\n

I don’t want to assume anymore because this clearly doesn’t work.<\/p>\n

Scott and I have already decided to start making sushi at home which is fine.\u00a0 But I know occasionally we might want to go out for sushi.\u00a0 Will we be able to without fear of encountering a nasty ingredient that we have been trying very hard to avoid?\u00a0 I don’t know the answer to that.\u00a0 Do you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember my sushi love post where I talked about my new found adoration for sushi? Well my bubble has since burst and I’m sort of bumming out about it now. Scott and I have successfully eliminated HFCS<\/abbr> from our diets.\u00a0 It’s been about two years now since we’ve made the cut. Last Friday Scott wanted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[58,51],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-2Mq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10690"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}