Why is everything full of sugar now?

carzony

why? you can't eat or drink anything..


I recently discovered a very nice drink called 'juicy water' and thought it was better than coke but read it has loads of sugar aswell.. :mad::mad::mad::mad:

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The Backwards Man

Apparently there's more sugar in a bowl of Special K than there is in a Tate&Lyle distribution warehouse.

yeahimhere

If you prefer, have the natural flavourings. Which include beetle poo and other such lovelies...yum yum

Charlie19

Sweet jaysus there is more sugar in apple juice than a can of coke.
http://www.hookedonjuice.com/

Frosty McSnowballs

First you get de shugar, den you get de powear, den you get the wimmins.

Stefan Kuntz

It's a conspiracy by dentists to keep their waiting rooms full of patients.

connundrum

This is why I never eat fruit.

'Naturally occurring sugars' - yeah right God!

Turtwig

More and more people are diabetic. Having sugar everywhere ensures they won't suffer the serious consequences of low sugar levels.

Oranage2

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Apparently there's more sugar in a bowl of Special K than there is in a Tate&Lyle distribution warehouse.

Per 100 grams, there is twice as much sugar in 100 grams of special k then there is in 100 grams of actual sugar.

Bipolar Joe

There's more sugar in a bowl of sugar than a cup, unless you pour the sugar from the cup into an empty bowl, then it is the same amount. Madness!

MadsL

Not all lost...

Sugar + yeast = alcohol.

Yay!

Peregrinus

Natural fruit juice, as bought in cartons, is a highly concentrated form of sugar. They like to promote it as "healthy" and, in some ways, it is. But if you are trying to lose a few pounds and/or keep your own teeth, lay off the fruit juice and fruit-flavoured drinks. All of them.

This is why God created black coffee, people!

The One Who Knocks

Who needs sugar when you have aspartame?

kneemos

Try making your own milkshakes from just fruit,it's sickly sweet as well.No escape from the stuff.

Fr_Dougal

Have a look at this.

anncoates

Something about food pyramids and thanks harvesting, I think.

MrBobbyZ

Just keep a large quantity of salt handy for substitute. Salt is sugar free and has none of the associated health risks.
Disclaimer: I am not a doctor, I'm not even an honest person.

mymo

TheZohan wrote: »

Have a look at this.

There's less sugar in a tube of Pringles than a salad?

Arthur Beesley

Um Bongo Um Bongo They Drink It In The Congo.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

http://www.sugarstacks.com/


http://www.sugarstacks.com/carrots.htm

hehehe

Oranage2

mymo wrote: »

There's less sugar in a tube of Pringles than a salad?

I think it's more the salad dressing.

pajor

Stefan Kuntz wrote: »

It's a conspiracy by dentists to keep their waiting rooms full of patients.

Just like that short Irish film 'Iníon an Fhíaclóir.' :pac:

Don't dare correct my Irish spelling.

Course juice has a load of sugar

Jaysus I'd love some pop tarts now :pac:

LETHAL LADY

Half of a Chicago town pepperoni pizza contains all of your recommended daily salt intake. Just be careful out there.

Frogdog

To answer your question OP, it's because sugar is cheap to put into foods (in place of healthy things like fat), and it makes it addictive, making you want to consume more of it, creating more profit for food companies.

Fr_Dougal

LETHAL LADY wrote: »

Half of a Chicago town pepperoni pizza contains all of your recommended daily salt intake. Just be careful out there.

Thieving bastard. :mad:

kneemos

LETHAL LADY wrote: »

Half of a Chicago town pepperoni pizza contains all of your recommended daily salt intake. Just be careful out there.

Indeed.

bnt

The One Who Knocks wrote: »

Who needs sugar when you have aspartame?

I'll take the sugar over the aspartame - then at least I know what I'm dealing with.

PS: of course there's sugar in fruit. It's called fructose, which means "fruit sugar". :cool:

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

bluewolf wrote: »

Course juice has a load of sugar

Jaysus I'd love some pop tarts now :pac:

im so lucky carlow tesco only have strawberry poptarts, had a serious craving during the week. I'd have been on an all pop tart diet if they'd had chocolate

Legs.Eleven

Sugar tastes nice.

Gongoozler

It seems people are afraid of all the natural things like fat and sugar and salt, but clearly they don't understand nutrition. There needs to be food education done in schools. Why have the government not implemented this yet? Too much to ask for? Surely its better than all the money spent on those ad campaigns.

beauf

There some great TV programs about how the food industry promotes healthy food which isn't that healthy.

The problem with sugar is that is so additive to many people.

Some people I know have never been attracted to sugar. Maybe its genetic but I'd say a large part was that they had a relatively sugar free diet growing up for a variety of reason.

foxy farmer

Frogdog wrote: »

To answer your question OP, it's because sugar is cheap to put into foods (in place of healthy things like fat), and it makes it addictive, making you want to consume more of it, creating more profit for food companies.

Yes indeed and once we are consuming vast quantities of it we develop diabetes which requires treatment with medicine. Knowing the deviousness of big business the food companies have probably been investing their profits in shares of pharma companies producing the insulin. They score we lose. Don't forget the sugar beet industry is being restarted again here. By the same people that ran it into the ground. It's all about money.

Hande hoche!

I blame the fat is bad brigade.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

im so lucky carlow tesco only have strawberry poptarts, had a serious craving during the week. I'd have been on an all pop tart diet if they'd had chocolate

Yeah chocolate... and the oreo ones

Tails142

Sugar ate my baby!

sullivlo

beauf wrote: »

There some great TV programs about how the food industry promotes healthy food which isn't that healthy.

The problem with sugar is that is so additive to many people.

Some people I know have never been attracted to sugar. Maybe its genetic but I'd say a large part was that they had a relatively sugar free diet growing up for a variety of reason.

Yes. Sugar is additive. Makes people fat.

Renegade Mechanic

My diet isnt what might be called great... Im fond of my sugar, fat and salt. I eat three proper meals most days with plenty of junk food aswell besides them, Mc Donalds some times and Pizza more times. Ill easily get 2 pints of milk in the day. And big rolls at some lunchtimes, packed with either chicken or tuna with all sorts of toppings. Ill eat my chocolate bars and packets of crisps away. But Ive always been good with water. Just ordinary tap water. 1.5- 2 ltrs a day, every day and as much as 4 ltrs (with much less eating it has to be said) during very hot weather. And I do not drink a lot of sugary drinks at all. Its nearly all water!
There propobably a fair amount of bad stuff in with the good stuff and Ill probably have to change it up a bit later in life but Id wonder if giving your body that amount of pure water helps it with keeping different systems and filters like your kidney clean? Whatever about food, I think drinks can be the most damaging. Theres a lot to be said for the advantages of water and I dont get this "chore" of drinking it either. I know people who hate it, who have to put ribena or some other flavouring in it. Whats the point!?

Pumpkinseeds

When they take the fat out they need to replace it with something so usually that's sugar. Take a look at the food label on fat free or low fat foods and you can often find a lot of sugar in the product. People see the low fat or no fat label and just assume it's healthy.

Gran Hermano

It is a gateway drug. 99% of junkies admitted to having started off on sugar as an infant.

The One Who Knocks

bnt wrote: »

I'll take the sugar over the aspartame - then at least I know what I'm dealing with.

PS: of course there's sugar in fruit. It's called fructose, which means "fruit sugar". :cool:

Oh I know, I was being sarcastic, pretty sure aspartame is a carcinogen!

Henwin

foxy farmer wrote: »

Yes indeed and once we are consuming vast quantities of it we develop diabetes which requires treatment with medicine. Knowing the deviousness of big business the food companies have probably been investing their profits in shares of pharma companies producing the insulin. They score we lose. Don't forget the sugar beet industry is being restarted again here. By the same people that ran it into the ground. It's all about money.

Mary Coughlin and her Fine Fail cronies ran the industry into the ground not the industry themselves

Gongoozler

The One Who Knocks wrote: »

Oh I know, I was being sarcastic, pretty sure aspartame is a carcinogen!

Huh?

Femme_Fatale

Lol at fear of fruit. Yeh, numerous obese people are that overweight from too many grapes.

Gongoozler

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Lol at fear of fruit. Yeh, numerous obese people are that overweight from too many grapes.

Who said people are afraid of fruit?

The One Who Knocks

Gongoozler wrote: »

Huh?

Well as far as I know, it caused brain tumors in rats, but they could never prove the same in humans,.. big conspiracy me thinks :P

Temptamperu

Just fúcking eat the crap and get over it, your gonna die anyway.

Sir Arthur Daley

sugarman wrote: »

...Whats wrong with Sugar?

Sugar is implicated in the following diseases and many more: allergies, arthritis, diabetes, hypoglycemia, osteoporosis, gallstones, kidney stones, headaches, yeast infections, and cataracts.

kneemos

sugarman wrote: »

...Whats wrong with Sugar?

I'm fine thanks honey.

mufcboy1999

To make men less manly a sure way to lower your test count is having a diet high in sugar not too mention the likes of cancer etc.

Conspiracy 101 , the goverments of the western world dont want alpha males running around.;)

Gongoozler

The One Who Knocks wrote: »

Well as far as I know, it caused brain tumors in rats, but they could never prove the same in humans,.. big conspiracy me thinks :P

I think there's a good chance it'll turn out aspartame is dangerous or something bad, but for now there's no evidence to show that so no point assuming that it's bad