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I was explaining this to my daughter in quite simplified terms the other day- we evolved to taste sugar and enjoy it because finding a sweet edible plant meant we had a source of energy to help us hunt that day. Pretty useful if you're a hunter-gatherer.

So we seek out sugar. Now we can get it whenever we want it, in much more massive quantities than we are supposed to be processing. Most of us are addicted. I'm not an exception.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Pretty much any fruit flavoured food that is not artificial will contain sugar from the fruit juice. But most companies add sugar anyway.

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

stares in European

I've heard of one of those brands but have never tried it myself (Chobani) and who impregnated the tomato sauce? ๐Ÿคจ

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yoplait is actually French.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Fair. Still not available in my particular part of Europe, though.

Here in Denmark we have so many domestic variants of yoghurt (big dairy producer per capita) that most grocery stores simply don't have room for/incentive to offer any imported ones, except for Greek yoghurt for the purists ๐Ÿ˜„

In fact, there's a great Scandinavia and the World comic about how much we love yoghurt ๐Ÿ˜

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Eh preggo tomato sauce!

[โ€“] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Fage is definitely my favorite yogurt. I'm always like "how the fuck is this so God damn good? It has virtually no sugar or anything added"

Also in case you didnt know, for many reduced fat items they just end up adding more sugar.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (13 children)

Is that added sugar, or sugar from the other ingredients?

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

The Ragu one has 0g added sugar, so for that one it's just the tomato sugar, so it's misleading.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago

Instead of sweet cereals, I switched to plain cereals and then add packets of sugar. Yes, it costs more for sugar packets than a bag of sugar, but I would end up rounding over a spoonful.

Anyway, each sugar packet is 2.5 g. At 3 packets, on a bad day when I'm eating my frustration, that's way plenty. And that's only 7.5 g of sugar. The sweet cereals have at least 20 extra g of sugar. Yikes!

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Oh that's why yoplait is so fucking good

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Check out how much sugar they put into frozen pizza. It's basically a sweet.

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