Allergy Research Group - vitamins & supplements

If you're looking for a Zinc supplement, this one by Allergy Research Group should fit the bill. According to a company response posted on Delphi, this supplement should be corn-free. (Data from July 2011)

"Hydroxypropyl methylcellulose microcrystalline cellulose is from birch tree bark, silicon dioxide is from sand, magnesium stearate from palm see oil.

The zinc is derived from rock."

Here's some information on their other products and ingredients:
"Our calcium and magnesium citrate are free of rice and corn. The facility that the product is bottled in maybe not be free of rice and corn. If you have any other questions please give me sent me an email."


"Cross contamination of minute amounts of materials is a possibility if the facility processing other ingredients with corn or rice to them. The Vitamin B complex, zinc and l-glutamine do not have any corn in them. The ascorbic acid... maybe corn derived."


"Theoretically there is no corn in the ascorbic acid as the source is material is corn but the finished material is a semi synthetic. But we can not say that extremely sensitive people are not going to react."


If you do see ascorbic acid in the ingredients, these products will be corny and should be avoided. There is a chance for cross-contamination with other items, but may or may not be enough to cause problems.


Informed choices are best!

Looza Juices

It has just come to my attention that Looza juices (a division of Pepsi - who knew?) are now using ascorbic acid in their regular juices.

Since a reaction prompted this news, and most ascorbic acid is from corn, I'll be removing these from the list unless they're reverified corn-free sometime in the future.

I also wanted to caution readers that the poster believes that Looza was putting the ascorbic acid into bottles with the old labels until they redid the packaging or ran out of the old packaging (however that works) so if you're drinking these juices and having problems.. this may be the culprit.

As always, use caution and read labels every time.

(Update: Supposedly the mango does not contain ascorbic or citric acid and should be corn-free, but at this time it is the only one.)

Gerber & Earth's Best use corn-based acids

"earths best baby food and gerber juices use corn base for their ascorbic and citric acids, i called this morning (all were very friendly and forth right)."


This was in the comments of one of our corn-free lists. The comment was left in January 2010 (yes I'm behind), but I wanted to add it as a post to make it easier for other mothers to find in the information.


As always, use caution with any products that list ascorbic or citric acid as these almost always are made from corn.