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That question - in and by itself - gives you away as an American. As a central European who grew up on water, fruit juice (80-60% water thinned) and tea (green,
by novalis78 12y ago
That question - in and by itself - gives you away as an American. As a central European who grew up on water, fruit juice (80-60% water thinned) and tea (green, herb and on and off black) it made me chuckle. I have never seen so much soda consumption anywhere on this planet before coming to the US.
- lazythrowaway 12y agoAmerica definitely drinks more soda than anyone else: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/map_of_the_week/2012/07/map_of_soda_consumption_americans_drink_more_than_anyone_else_.html http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/map_of_the_.... 3x as much as most central European countries.
- novalis78 12y agoNotwithstanding the golden "correlation != causation" adage, I found that only two things are truly consumed in much larger quantities in America than any other country I know: soda and high fructose corn syrup...at the same time being the only country with a 35% obesity rate...hmmmm
- vonmoltke 12y agoOh really? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/09/mexico-obesity_n_3567772.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/09/mexico-obesity_n_35... Relevant numbers from the article: US obesity rate: 31.8% Mexican obesity rate: 32.8% Also, Mexican soda exclusively uses cane sugar. I buy Mexican Coke for the new times I drink regular soda for that reason.
- adventured 12y agoNot true. Saudi Arabia is the most obese country on earth, at 70%. Britain, Australia, and New Zealand are also substantially obese. All of those are coming increasingly close to catching America in obesity, with their obesity levels exploding higher.
- kissickas 12y agoHere's the latest data I know of on this: http://www.socialprogressimperative.org/data/spi/components/com7#data_table/countries/idr29/idr29 http://www.socialprogressimperative.org/data/spi/components/... The United States comes in at 8th highest obesity rate, after Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, the UAE, South Africa, and Mexico.
- boydjd 12y agoA lot of the "fruit juice" (in America, at least) contains just as much HFCS as soda. I don't know if this is the case in the rest of the world or in this study though.
- shawabawa3 12y agoI'm fairly sure in the UK you can't legally call fruit juice with added sugar/sweeteners "juice" - it would have to be fruit drink or something
- boydjd 12y agoIt's the same in the US ... except you can call it "juice drink" or "juice cocktail", which isn't very clear.
- TazeTSchnitzel 12y agoWow that's weird, if I heard "juice cocktail" I'd think Mango and Orange or something. "Juice drink" is plain misleading.
- andor 12y agoThat's what we have regulations for ;-) Everything called "fruit juice" in the EU needs to be 100% juice (but it can be made from concentrate).
- Symbiote 12y agoOf the ~20 countries I've visited I think only the US had HFCS in the fruit juice. (It tastes funny/unfamiliar, so I notice.) Instead they contain sugar, natural or added, and about as much as cola (~10%). The cola also has sugar instead of HFCS.
- adventured 12y agoThe US Government's vast, and continued, subsidization of corn is what led to the creation of HFCS. Makes sense, unfortunately, that the US would be drowning in it.