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As well as many other things, have you heard of Nutella?
by Railsify 7y ago
As well as many other things, have you heard of Nutella?
- chewz 7y ago> have you heard of Nutella? Always wonder who's buying Nutella. Sugar and palmoil.
- simias 7y agoBecause if there's one basic nutrition fact we all know, it's that humans aren't attracted to sugar and fat.
- chrisseaton 7y agoYou can make any food sound ridiculous by reducing it to its ingredients.
- 13of40 7y agoNot tofu. It's beans.
- chewz 7y agoNutella started as mix of hazelnuts and chocolate (to save on chocolate in Piedmont Italy) now more then 50% of its content is palmoil and sugar. What happend? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutella https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutella
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- simias 7y agoI mean it's not really a big mystery, I'm not sure where this discussion is going. A ton of super popular food is ridiculously unhealthy. Coca Cola is basically super-sweet water. Jams don't usually have added fats but they do have a ton of sugar. Cotton Candy is literally only sugar (and some colorant I suppose). Clearly the incentives here are simple, you want to make a product that people like as much as possible while making it as cheaply as possible. Health is not really a factor, insofar as not too many people don't drop your product because they see it as unhealthy (ads will help with that, all Nutella ads I've seen in France focus on "giving energy to children for their activities" or some bullshit like that). So that's how you end up with something that's mainly palm oil and sugar. The market has spoken. I'm sure that if they reverted back to their original recipe they'd lose a significant amount of clients.
- improbable22 7y agoYou can buy spreads which are just hazelnuts and chocolate. But they cost several times as much as nutella, unsurprisingly.
- chewz 7y ago> I'm not sure where this discussion is going we are invastigating how food insdustry transformed healthy snacks into palmoil and sugar to great harm for sumatrean jungle and its habitat.
- lonelappde 7y agoWhat? Not all foods are sugar and oil. Healthy foods have fiber, protein, and complex starches.
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- Railsify 7y agoCommenter probable survives on Soylent.
- twic 7y agoItalians.
- darkpuma 7y agoIn America nutella is an obscure condiment generally considered too desserty to be useful for much, sort of like "marshmellow spread". Yet the average European gets approximately 80-90% of their yearly caloric intake from Nutella, from what I've gathered.
- Railsify 7y agoI buy the large jar of Nutella. ~American
- kibwen 7y agoWell, to be fair to the parent commenter, Nutella contains about 2/3 the calories of gasoline per unit of weight, so the confusion is understandable. :P
- NeedMoreTea 7y agoI thought Nutella was famous for two things, neither of them palm oil: Using some crazy percentage of the world's hazelnut supply - a half, a quarter? Not sure. Also for changing the recipe to a new, awful one. Though maybe this added the palm oil. Palm oil seems to be getting used to substitute other oils and and ingredients in just about everything processed lately.
- lonelappde 7y agoNutella is famous for fat people not knowing it's mostly sugar and palm oil, and eating this candy instead of healthy but butters.
- pergadad 7y agoNot only Nutella, the company Ferrero Overall uses this amount of hazelnuts, but it's also other products. Nutella is just the flagship product.