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Photo courtesy of Maya Weinstein via Co.EXIST<\/p><\/div>\n
Your eyes do not deceive you.<\/p>\n
This lovely wooden case indeed contains an undeniably artisan make-your-own high fructose corn syrup kit<\/a>.<\/p>\n Photo courtesy of Maya Weinstein via Co.EXIST<\/p><\/div>\n It includes hard-to-find ingredients such as Yellow Dent #2, glucose isomerase, and sulfuric acid.<\/p>\n Nope, you won’t find those in the baking aisle, girls.<\/p>\n This kit is more “chem lab” than “kitchen.”<\/p>\n You’re wondering, too, aren\u2019t you?<\/p>\n Why on earth would I want to make this <\/i>sordid sweetener<\/i><\/a>?<\/p>\n As you may have guessed, this is more of a tongue-in-cheek affair, but it doesn’t come without a dose of seriousness.<\/p>\n “The Kit provides the user with a way to directly interact with an ingredient that is typically only produced in large-scale factories behind closed doors,” explains designer Maya Weinstein<\/a>. “The kit allows everyone to be a citizen food scientist and take control of the mysteries behind industrial food production.”<\/p>\n See what I mean?<\/p>\n Weinstein says that her kits could be used to educate both kids and adults about how processed foods are fabricated, while simultaneously satisfying the mad scientist in us all. “It\u2019s really meant to show you something that you don\u2019t already know\u2014what industrial products are made of.”<\/p>\n It might make a crafty Christmas gift after all!<\/p>\n Weinstein is also contemplating a cookbook with recipes for other industrialized ingredients like food dyes and MSG. Watch her unconventional cooking show below. Do you think it has a chance on the Food Network?<\/p>\n![\"gift_gab-corn_syrup2\"](\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/gift_gab-corn_syrup2.jpg\")