Duck Sauce

Everything in this class has raised my awareness about the food I eat, but one of the things that I keep coming back to is high fructose corn syrup. I remember reading Marion Nestle's chapter on sugar in her book What to Eat, and since then have been looking at every label I come across. After I watched King Corn, I was even more on the lookout for what has high fructose corn syrup in it and what doesn't.
The other day, however, I was caught by surprise. I was at a typical take out "Chinese" food place, and had picked up some packets of sauce, you know the ones:

I wondered to myself, as I am sure many people have at some point, what exactly is in those duck sauce packets? Duck? But seriously, I was curious, because I honestly had no idea what made up this tangy sauce. I look closely, and of course the first three ingredients are: water, corn syrup, and high fructose corn syrup.

Shocker, I know. I was just caught off guard, because I had absolutely no idea what was in duck sauce, and was ready for anything. I should have guessed. The soy sauce was also a culprit of corn syrup:

Well now I know....