I have a good friend with a lot of food product allergies - soy, corn, wheat, lactose, and so on.

HFCS is definitely on the "can't eat it" list, so Coke is out. Neither of us were aware of the "Passover Coke", so I'd like to thank you for this info. He may try it just to see what it's like.

Here's a challenge for you. If you're in the US of A, check ALL of the ingredients on what you buy the next time you go to your supermarket for your weekly food run. It's astonishing to me how many foods have HFCS in them when you wouldn't expect it - and it also seems that *everything* labeled "diet" has HFCS as the first or second ingredient.

The good side of this kind of allergy is that my friend is quite lean - probably 15% or less body fat. Since there's so much he can't or won't eat, he resorts to lots of vegetables and fresh-cooked foods.

Hmm ... I can see it now ... "The HFCS-free Diet" ... it might a popular book, at least until the leading HFCS manufacturers turn on their PR machines.