Unfortunate Ingredients: Difference between revisions
m
clean up
m (Mass update links) |
m (clean up) |
||
Line 15:
* Sugar Smacks → Honey Smacks → just plain "Smacks" → Honey Smacks (again)
* Sugar Frosted Flakes → Frosted Flakes (happened in the 1970s). Makes one wonder what Kellogg's uses for frosting nowadays.
* At about this same time, many pre-sweetened cereals also had their ingredients lists rearranged. By law, all ingredients must be listed in descending order of abundance. Before the Great Sugar Cereal Renaming, a box of (say) Froot Loops had its ingredients listed as "Sugar, wheat flour, oat flour, ...". Today, that same box of Froot
== Restaurants ==
Line 43:
** The common complaint is that it contains chlorine... which is found in most tap-water.
** As mentioned above, the backlash against this is driving brands like Coke and Pepsi ''back'' to advertising the "[[All-Natural Snake Oil|natural sugar]]" they contain, where previously they banked on artificial sweeteners.
* High fructose corn syrup, the currently-trendy "evil" of the food industry
** One brand of pancake syrup (Log Cabin, if memory serves) proudly touts itself as being corn-syrup free...and when you read the ingredients, you realize that the main ingredient has been changed to ''rice'' syrup. As though that's any better.
*** It's different. Might actually be better. HFCS is basically fructose and glucose, both monosaccarides. Rice Syrup is maltose and maltotriose, more complex sugars that digest more slowly and break down (via enzymes in the gut) entirely into glucose. It's unclear whether this matters to non-diabetics or not.
** Whatever you think of the difference in flavor (it may or may not exist), some have noted a good reason to hate HFCS: the only reason anyone uses it is that it's artificially cheap, thanks to ridiculously high US subsidies on corn, most of which amounts to corporate welfare. (Sugar, by contrast, is artificially ''expensive'' in the U.S. due to high import tariffs on foreign sugar, which shield the domestic sugar market against foreign competition. Pick your political poison.)
*** Fructose is metabolized differently, despite claims to the contrary made by the Corn Refiners Association. It should be noted that this is ''literally'' basic
**** The 2011 ads don't claim that your body cannot tell the difference between sugar and ''fructose''. They claim that your body cannot tell the difference between sugar and ''high fructose corn syrup.'' Post-digestion, sugar consists of a 50%-50% mixture of fructose and glucose, while HFCS consists of a 55%-45% mixture of fructose and glucose.
** HFCS may "technically" be sugar, with the same amount of calories/carbs/whatever, but here's an example to prove that this does ''not'' mean "all sugars are created equal"; if you are lactose intolerant, your body reacts to lactose (milk sugar) negatively. Lactose is technically sugar, but being lactose intolerant won't prevent you from, say, regular table sugar. From there, you can flat-out ''prove'' that there is ''some'' difference. Like the post above, there's something really creepy about it being ''everywhere.''
*** It's "everywhere" chiefly because A) as the name suggests, it's derived from corn, B) corn is the staple crop of most of the Midwest US, and C) it's correspondingly cheap.
** In the 1970s and 1980s, health food stores sold fructose (not HFCS, ''pure fructose'') as a "healthier alternative" to regular sugar. When HFCS started becoming a health concern in the late 1990s, health studies started being performed on laboratory rats, and at least some of these experiments involved feeding the rats pure fructose instead of HFCS or table
*** Concerning the terming "corn sugar", and how it's treated not different, this is not only a patent lie ( [http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/sweets/5592/2 sugar is a well... a sugar], and gets flushed out of the body somewhat quickly, while [http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/sweets/5600/2 HFCS is actually closer to a starch], meaning your body holds it for ''longer'', up to 3 days according to one report<sup>[[Citation Needed|[citation needed] ]]</sup>, in which time due to its market prevalence you've ''probably had more''), but has a bit of [[Fridge Horror]], since the name could from there be changed to just "sugar" and if you had an objection or allergy to it, you'd be unknowingly ingested it. For that matter, given enough leeway, food companies could put any ingredients, including rat poison, in what appears to be simple and healthy food, ''[[High Octane Nightmare Fuel|and you'd never know...]]''.
** It's entirely possible that this trend will come full-circle in a generation. An entire generation of youth is growing up today drinking soda pop sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup. To them, HFCS will be the taste they grew up with and grew attached to, and table sugar will taste a little "off." Two decades from now, we may start seeing retro versions of the retro drinks that advertise "Made with real high-fructose corn syrup!".
| |||