Before I read the book “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” by Michael Pollan, I never thought about what kinds of ingredients I normally eat for every meal in my usual life. And I never suspected that how much amount of corn in my normal diet.
Yesterday, September 10, 2011, I woke up at 10am. I took a shower first and after that I ate breakfast. Usually, I don’t eat breakfast because every morning is too busy to eat breakfast, but on weekend, I tried to eat breakfast. First I look around the kitchen for finding suitable food for my breakfast. When I look a refrigerator, I found the “Kellogg’s Special K (red berries)” cereal and the “Kirkland’s low-fat milk.” During me eating cereal, I observed the ingredients. For the cereal, there is rice, whole grain wheat, sugar, wheat bran, freeze-dried strawberries, high fructose corn syrup, soluble wheat fiber, salt, malt flavoring, Vitamin C, reduced iron, alpha tocopherol, niacinamide, pyridoxine hydrochloride, Vitamin B, Vitamin A, palmtiate and folic acid. For the milk, there is low-fat milk, Vitamin A Palmitate amd Vitamin D. 
After breakfast, I went to my friend’s house for do homework together. My friend lives alone so there are many processed food in her house. We did homework, talk and finally we felt hunger around 2pm, then we decided to eat bagel and milk. We ate bagel called “Parmesan Bagel” from Costco. The bagel contain by wheat flour, malt barley flour, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic aciso, water, malt, high fructose corn syrup, salt, yeast, wheat gluten, skim milk and olive oil. I drank coffee milk with bagel and it called “Seoul milk, coffee milk” from Korea milk company. This milk contain by milk, water, sugar, high fructose corn syrup, coffee powder, skim milk powder, natural and artificial flavors. Also we ate blueberry yogurts for desert. The yogurt from “Yoplait” and it include cultured pasteurized grade A non-fat milk, blueberries, high fructose corn syrup, modified corn starch, milk, natural flavor and Vitamins.
At 8pm, we finally ate dinner. We felt tiresome to cook dinner, so we both agreeing to eat noodles for our dinner. The noodle called “Bibim Men” and the noodle produced in Korea. I really like this noodle, this noodle is Korean style spicy noodle. During I cook for noodles, I looked the ingredients. There is wheat flour, palm oil, modified starch salt, emulsifiers, soybean oil, sugar, red pepper, apple puree, vinegar and garlic paste.
After I wrote my meal’s ingredients, I was really surprised. For sure, I expected the large amounts of corns are containing my meal but I didn’t exactly know how much amount of corns is in my meal. Almost of my meal include the “High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS).” And yes I fitted Pollan’s description of processed corn and walking. Now I can understand how much shocks Pollan’s got. Because of yesterday, I have my new personal habit. When I went to store, I tried to observe the food’s ingredients. I know it is hard to evade hastily, however if we want to keep our body healthy, we should try to avoid processed food and eat healthy food. Moreover, I have more interest about the book “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” by Michael Pollan.
