Organic Prairie Ground Turkey

A company response posted on our favorite forum - Delphi Forums - Avoiding Corn - states this product to be corn-free.

Organic Prairie's Ground Turkey Chub has no added ingredients to the ground turkey, and the packaging does not contain corn starch as well.

This product still needs testers, so let us know how you are doing with it.

Corn-Free Turkey

Shopping for your Thanksgiving turkey this weekend?

Here's some of the latest information:

Butterball Fresh Turkey - not safe. corn starch is involved in the processing of the birds.

Foster Farms - multiple reported reactions with their bird products though should be safe by the company ingredient and processing reports from the company. I'm not sure what they're doing or how corn is in the birds, but your best bet is to find a different source of bird.

Kosher.com - birds processed using normal kosher processes: kosher salt and water. The packaging may or may not be 100% corn-free. If you resort to this method of obtaining a safe turkey (I understand some areas of the USA do not carry much selection), make sure to rinse the turkey thoroughly before cooking. Birds can be purchased through their website or through Amazon.

Henry's Marketplace (subsidiary of Whole Foods) - Turkey is processed/packaged with water only.

Empire Whole turkeys - still safe. http://www.empirekosher.com/

Trader Joe's Kosher Turkey - these birds should be completely safe. Even the packaging was checked for corntamination.

This is the info that I have so far, if you have more information please let us know.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Trader Joe's Canned Chunk Turkey

Since I don't have a whole lot of information on this product, consider this more of an FYI.

A poster on Delphi - Avoiding Corn trialled Trader Joe's canned Chunk Turkey and reacted.

So do use caution.

Empire Kosher

Empire Kosher's Kosher For Passover products are kitniot-free per the company (as posted on Avoiding-Corn).

This also means that their Kosher for Passover products are also 100% corn-free.

Their plain meats are corn-free still, but do watch labels. Kitniot-free applies to all their products labeled "Kosher for Passover" (including seasoned meats, sausages, etc), but only those labeled "Kosher for Passover".

You can find a list of Empire's Kosher for Passover products here on their website.

Empire Kosher also has an online shopping website as well, for those interested.

Corn-Free Foods - Finding Local Resources

Getting more control over the sources of your foods helps when you're trying to eliminate contamination. Small farmers and local suppliers are often very willing to help out and work with you on your special needs. It's also nice to know that you're helping to support your local economy.

Finding these sources can be daunting but there are a couple places that may help:

EatWild.com can help you locate grass-fed meats: beef, lamb, goats, bison, poultry, pork, & dairy.

FoodRoutes.org lists several local suppliers of meats, veggies, poultry, eggs. Their search engine makes it easy to locate possible suppliers in your area.


Do know that you will need to check with each supplier about the processing of the products to make sure it doesn't get contaminated with corn (or other allergen specific to your needs).

Happy Hunting.

Foster Farms - Natural Flavoring

Foster Farms plain chicken and turkey meats have been on our list for safe meat products for quite a while.

However, questions arose as to the safety of their ground meats which include "natural flavoring" which is listed as "spice extractives of rosemary" on their website.

Thanks to an inquisitive member of Delphi-Avoiding Corn, we've learned that the rosemary is extracted using a carbon dioxide technology and then dissolved in vegetable oil. According to Foster Farms, the vegetable oil could possibly contain corn.

So please use caution with any Foster Farms product with natural flavorings, as the possibility of it containing corn is pretty high. Their kosher plain meats should still be safe.