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Sugar is a major problem as right now it gets pumped in almost every food. It is addictive and people are more likely to re-buy those products. If you think yo
by ardit33 10y ago
Sugar is a major problem as right now it gets pumped in almost every food. It is addictive and people are more likely to re-buy those products.
If you think you are avoiding sugar in your diet by avoiding the usual culprit (processed juices, soda, desserts), think again.
Now sugar is being injected into everything, processed meat, soups, etc...
I just bought some Jerkey at Trader's Joe. Each serving contains 10-11 grams of protein and, 5 or 6 grams of sugar. That's one teaspoon and a half of sugar! A packet, ( a normal snack), has 3-4 servings, and you end up with 5+ teaspoons of sugar that if you didn't look at the nutritional labels you wouldn't know. Normally jerkey shouldn't have any, (or maybe one gram and best).
This is just one example, but the pumping of sugar is becoming so pervasive that it is almost impossible to avoid.
- quacker 10y agoI recently checked the sugar content in some Prego pasta sauce. It was something like 50+ grams of sugar in a smaller size jar (depending on the variety of the sauce). When I did the math, the sauce was contributing 25-30 grams of sugar per meal - similar to a can of soda. I found another sauce with 1/3 the sugar content at my grocery store. (And of course, pasta is not the thing to eat if you're looking for low carbs, but the point stands) There has been tons of advertising about the health benefits of cereals, but cereal has tons of sugar. Honey Nut Cheerios have 10g of sugar per serving. Corn flakes have 8g per serving. Frosted Flakes have 11g. Some of the few low sugar varieties are Kix, Cheerios, and Rice Krispies. Even then, the added milk will have 10g of sugar.