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- Simply adopting reasonable labeling rules proven in other countries would fix a lot of problems in general. Japan has a great system for beverages. It wouldn't hurt if we adopted their safety standards around eggs either. https://xn--btro1dr1yrpow7m.com/en/what-are-the-rules-for-ju...by yummypaint
- Deception is bad, but from a nutritional point of view this really shouldn't be an issue for informed consumers (ie. people who read the ingredient lists) given that "nutrition facts" also exists. 10g of sugar is 10g of sugar, regardless if it came from a strawberry, fruit juices, or HFCS. This is especially true in highly processed foods, where the processing eliminates any advantage that "natural" sugars have.by gruez
- The best solution is to control all the ingredients in your own kitchen. Relying on labeling to protect your health is insufficient. If you select your produce, you can prefer Jim Bob's local farm over the Monsanto option. You can sidestep entire categories of health risk. I'll sometimes buy a full hand basket worth of one thing like onions or limes depending on availability and quality.
There are still some shelf stable goods that you can buy without getting screwed. But it's exceedingly rare now. Peanut butter is a good example. 99% the inventory is JIF with palm oil and added sugar in a plastic container, but on the very top (or bottom) shelf you can often find a glass jar that contains only peanuts and salt. It took me a month to get used to peanut butter like this. The exercise of stirring it almost ruined it for me. I can't imagine going back to the other stuff now. I tried JIF again recently and it tastes like a product you'd buy from Home Depot to do a drywall job.
by bob1029 - I remember looking at a carton of Whole Foods soy milk that prominently said “no added sugar”.
I looked on the back and after water the second ingredient was “dehydrated cane juice”.
The food system has been gamed forever.
by gumby - It's not a scam. And added sugars are listed prominently in the nutrition facts.
It's the fact that different sugars have different properties. In terms of texture, moisture, etc. And they can be used at different stages of the manufacturing process.
There's nothing wrong with this. Nutrition facts clearly label the total added sugars.
Plus, strawberries are often going to be listed first anyways because traditional jam is approximately a 1:1 ratio of fruit to sugar. So even if it were just one type of sugar, strawberries could still be listed first.
by crazygringo - 160 points on a submissions pointing to a tweet from an NFT account posting a low information tiktok video.
Times are changing. I'm having nostalgia for the decades we were only worried about turning into reddit.
by hombre_fatal - I think even worse than this is the disconnect between a product name and the actual composition of the product.
Its most rampant with juices, where every juice is actually just apple juice (from concentrate, so mostly water anyway) with a splash of [fruit] juice thrown in (also from concentrate, so also mostly water). Maybe if you are lucky you'll catch an apple shown on the front label behind the huge passion fruit or whatever.
This even extends to clothing, where stuff like "Wool Sweater" is 5% wool 15% cotton and 80% polyester.
It should be a law that the primary ingredient of a product being the leading noun in the name of the product.
by WarmWash - This is such a bad video. Someone else's video, cut over multiple different times, a horrible slurred AI voice, shaky filmed screen with a guy talking over… Each layer adds nothing, but somehow this is the version worthy of sharing?