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title: Hidden Places Where GMOs Lurk
date: 2013-04-02T04:12:20Z
modified: 2013-04-02T04:12:20Z
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categories:
  - Living Naturally
  - Nutrition in the News
tags:
  - animal feed GMO
  - genetically modified food
  - gmo
  - GMOs in foods
  - high fructose corn syrup
  - milk
  - Monsanto
  - non GMO project
  - organic eggs
author: Elizabeth
---

Here are a few places where you might not think you’d find [Genetically Modified](http://elizabethyarnell.com/effortlesseating/2012/06/what-foods-have-been-genetically-modified-gmo/ "what is gmo") ingredients, so be aware.![](http://www.nongmoproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/Revised-Seal-copy.jpg "non-gmo project verified")

**Breakfast cereals.** Almost all of the corn and soy crops in the USA are now GMOs; unless your cereal sports the Non-GMO Project or Certified Organic seals, be certain that, by default, they contain GMO corn or soy.

**Soda pop.** If it contains high fructose corn syrup, you can bet it’s full of concentrated modified/mutated DNA. I’m pretty sure that there is not a GMO-free version of high fructose corn syrup, but let me know if I’m mistaken.

**[Chewing gum](http://elizabethyarnell.com/effortlesseating/2012/04/aspartame-free-chewing-gum/ "aspartame-free chewing gum").** If it contains Aspartame, it contains GMOs. Same goes for **Diet sodas**.

**Chicken.** Yep, those chicken nuggets, chicken fajitas, chicken sandwiches, chicken burritos… Even that plain grilled chicken breast on rice served at the luncheon and that roasted half-breast-and-leg portion offered at some fancy restaurants. All of that comes from chickens fed a feed made up of corn and soy. Yep, you guessed, it: unless it’s specifically labeled as Organic of GMO-free, it’s most assuredly chock-full of GMOs. So the chickens eat the feed and now they incorporate the GMOs into their flesh.

**Eggs**. See above. Always choose [organic eggs](http://elizabethyarnell.com/effortlesseating/2012/06/are-cage-free-eggs-the-same-as-organic-eggs/ "organic eggs vs cage free eggs").

**Beef.** Cows, too, are fed a feed made of GMO corn and GMO soy. The mutated DNA remains in the meat of the animal, which means that your hamburger is likely brimming with tinkered DNA.

**Milk.** See above. Studies have shown that GMOs pass into the flesh, milk, and eggs of animals fed GMO-contaminated feed. This goes for non-organic yogurts, too.