r/MurderedByWords • u/ledgendary • Aug 22 '19

Murder Take several seats

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u/ExhibitionistVoyeurP Aug 23 '19

Food shopping in the US is frustrating. EVERYTHING has added sugar. Bread, pasta sauce, everything. Ive seen guacamole with sugar in it. Why?

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u/piina Aug 23 '19

Sugar, salt and fats are the most accessible things that make your food taste good. There has been a huge push against fat in recent history so they just took out the fat and replaced it with sugar so the food is still palatable.

Tl;dr sugar tastes good

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u/Osmodius Aug 23 '19

Fortunately in Australia, at least, every is required to have pretty detailed nutritional information. All it takes is a few moments to see what you're actually eating.

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u/ExhibitionistVoyeurP Aug 23 '19

Labels have gotten pretty good in the US now too. The problem is that ANY prepacked food in a grocery store in the US, even stuff trying to advertise as healthy is almost always loaded with sugar and other shit.

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u/Osmodius Aug 23 '19

"99% FAT FREE, IT'S AMAZING"

Meanwhile it's a bottle of juice that's 50% sugar and would never have had fat in it in the first place.