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Trying to eliminate what I consider "bad" foods from my diet is becoming harder as the producers change the name. I really don't care if it has been proved beyo

Trying to eliminate what I consider "bad" foods from my diet is becoming harder as the producers change the name. I really don't care if it has been proved beyond a shadow of a doubt to be bad - because that process took over 100 years for tobacco. I want X out of my life, I should be allowed to detect items containing X.

araneae 16y ago
You eat tons of things every day that are equivalent to X without realizing it. Would you shy away from foods that have list of ingredients that included fructose and glucose? That's all corn syrup is (and a few random corn solids here and there.) Apples have a really high fructose content too, so technically drinking apple juice can be worse than drinking a dilute corn syrup solution (depending on the kind of HFCS), but almost no one thinks twice about that because it's "natural." (Although there is a growing anti-juice movement.) Data from Wikipedia (remaining content is glucose): HFCS90: 90% Fructose Apple Juice: 63-78% Fructose HFCS55: 55% Fructose HFCS43: 43% Fructose
- Tangurena 16y ago
  Maybe I'm Jewish and I want to keep kosher. Maybe I'm not. It is my decision what goes into my body. Not yours. Not some company's. There are a lot of foods I don't eat anymore. I happen to love chocolate. But I don't want to eat chocolate with PGPR in it, therefore I don't purchase Hershey's anymore. Is PGPR "bad" for me? Umm, no. When you were a child, you had (and ate) "wax lips" which are PGPR with some color added. It doesn't belong in my chocolate, therefore I refuse to eat it, and refuse to purchase foods with PGPR
  - araneae 16y ago
    >It doesn't belong in my chocolate, therefore I refuse to eat it, and refuse to purchase foods with PGPR You're weird. Chocolate originally comes in bean form; some brilliant South Americans got the idea to grind it up with sugar and water and drink it. Chocolate in solid form is a pretty damn new idea and hardly even counts as a food; it's a pretty weird concoction to be a "purist" about. Where does your platonic idea of chocolate come from? I have a few friends that keep pretty strict kosher, and I think they're weird too. But at least I can get a handle on it because it's written in book they feel like following the rules of. I don't really understand this extreme fetishism we have for what we eat that people pull out of their anal area.
    - Tangurena 16y ago
      >Where does your platonic idea of chocolate come from? Cadbury Flake.
      - araneae 16y ago
        I'm a Fruit and Nut person myself ^-^
    - blackguardx 16y ago
      It's called a preference, dude. Having a preference doesn't make you weird. I happen to prefer chocolate bars with over 75% cocoa content. It is just what I prefer. Blindly consuming anything put in front of you is weird. Also, chocolate as a drink originated in Mexico and they didn't mix sugar with it. They mixed ground chili peppers.
      - potatolicious 16y ago
        I don't think he's denying your right to have a preference - that being said, avoiding things with a rational reason seems mighty weird to me. So you prefer chocolate bars with >75% Cocoa, I can get that - so do I. I like the taste of pure dark chocolate more than the taste of milk chocolate, say. So, if you were avoiding HFCS for health reasons, or taste reasons, I totally get that. But "I just dont' want it in my food, mmm'kay?" seems weird to me. > "Blindly consuming anything put in front of you is weird." Oh come on, now you're just taking this personally and getting rude. At no point did previous poster suggest that either you or him "blindly consume" anything put in front of you.
        blackguardx 16y ago
        Rude? I'm not sure I follow you. My point is that the opposite of having preferences is just consuming everything. It is just as "weird" as having very distinct preferences. I also think it is rude to call someone weird but maybe I am alone in this.
        16y ago
  - jlmendezbonini 16y ago
    Agree. Also, in the case of chocolate there are other important reasons (chocolate slavery) to refuse buying from industry giants. http://vision.ucsd.edu/~kbranson/stopchocolateslavery/ http://vision.ucsd.edu/~kbranson/stopchocolateslavery/

araneae 16y ago

You eat tons of things every day that are equivalent to X without realizing it. Would you shy away from foods that have list of ingredients that included fructose and glucose? That's all corn syrup is (and a few random corn solids here and there.) Apples have a really high fructose content too, so technically drinking apple juice can be worse than drinking a dilute corn syrup solution (depending on the kind of HFCS), but almost no one thinks twice about that because it's "natural." (Although there is a growing anti-juice movement.) Data from Wikipedia (remaining content is glucose): HFCS90: 90% Fructose Apple Juice: 63-78% Fructose HFCS55: 55% Fructose HFCS43: 43% Fructose

Tangurena 16y ago
Maybe I'm Jewish and I want to keep kosher. Maybe I'm not. It is my decision what goes into my body. Not yours. Not some company's. There are a lot of foods I don't eat anymore. I happen to love chocolate. But I don't want to eat chocolate with PGPR in it, therefore I don't purchase Hershey's anymore. Is PGPR "bad" for me? Umm, no. When you were a child, you had (and ate) "wax lips" which are PGPR with some color added. It doesn't belong in my chocolate, therefore I refuse to eat it, and refuse to purchase foods with PGPR
- araneae 16y ago
  >It doesn't belong in my chocolate, therefore I refuse to eat it, and refuse to purchase foods with PGPR You're weird. Chocolate originally comes in bean form; some brilliant South Americans got the idea to grind it up with sugar and water and drink it. Chocolate in solid form is a pretty damn new idea and hardly even counts as a food; it's a pretty weird concoction to be a "purist" about. Where does your platonic idea of chocolate come from? I have a few friends that keep pretty strict kosher, and I think they're weird too. But at least I can get a handle on it because it's written in book they feel like following the rules of. I don't really understand this extreme fetishism we have for what we eat that people pull out of their anal area.
  - Tangurena 16y ago
    >Where does your platonic idea of chocolate come from? Cadbury Flake.
    - araneae 16y ago
      I'm a Fruit and Nut person myself ^-^
  - blackguardx 16y ago
    It's called a preference, dude. Having a preference doesn't make you weird. I happen to prefer chocolate bars with over 75% cocoa content. It is just what I prefer. Blindly consuming anything put in front of you is weird. Also, chocolate as a drink originated in Mexico and they didn't mix sugar with it. They mixed ground chili peppers.
    - potatolicious 16y ago
      I don't think he's denying your right to have a preference - that being said, avoiding things with a rational reason seems mighty weird to me. So you prefer chocolate bars with >75% Cocoa, I can get that - so do I. I like the taste of pure dark chocolate more than the taste of milk chocolate, say. So, if you were avoiding HFCS for health reasons, or taste reasons, I totally get that. But "I just dont' want it in my food, mmm'kay?" seems weird to me. > "Blindly consuming anything put in front of you is weird." Oh come on, now you're just taking this personally and getting rude. At no point did previous poster suggest that either you or him "blindly consume" anything put in front of you.
      - blackguardx 16y ago
        Rude? I'm not sure I follow you. My point is that the opposite of having preferences is just consuming everything. It is just as "weird" as having very distinct preferences. I also think it is rude to call someone weird but maybe I am alone in this.
        16y ago
- jlmendezbonini 16y ago
  Agree. Also, in the case of chocolate there are other important reasons (chocolate slavery) to refuse buying from industry giants. http://vision.ucsd.edu/~kbranson/stopchocolateslavery/ http://vision.ucsd.edu/~kbranson/stopchocolateslavery/