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The contents of a jar of Nutella
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this post was submitted on 05 Apr 2026
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I'm actually a bit surprised it has so much sugar in it and they haven't tried to replace it with some sort of artificial sweetener or HFCS. The sugar has to be the lion share of the cost, maybe tied with the Coco.
The sugar also supplies a significant amount of the volume of the product. Artificial sweetener is significantly sweeter than sucrose, like hundreds of times sweeter, so just swapping the sugar for artificial sweetener would require them to use a bulking agent. The safest bulking agent that doesn't change the flavor or texture would be sugar.
i mostly agree but sugar absolutely changes texture and flavour of things, that's why it's so standard in baking sweets.