I do not have any problem with encouraging Coca-Cola to change to sugar. I sometimes get Mexican Coke which uses cane sugar and it tastes the same to me. Like the companies removing dyes voluntarily, this is how to make things better: persuasion, not threats.
High Fructose Corn Syrup is used because there is a price floor imposed on sugar. Sugar is artificially high in the US. Price guarantees put in place to protect the US sugar producers from competition.
ReplyDeleteGet rid of the price floor for sugar, and a lot of things will go back that way. (The European company that owned Brachs candy in the 1980s - after Kraft - moved one of the largest candy operations in the world to Mexico to get out from under the US sugar pricing. There were other reasons to leave Chicago, but that is clearly why they left the US)
Yes. Idaho among them. The smell from the sugar beets refinery smells like burned peanut butter.
DeleteI try and avoid all sugars, as much as possible - including the so-called healthy fruit sugars, like fructose. Fructose is metabolized differently than glucose, has no feedback loop to tell you to stop eating it, and basically just contributes to cholesterol formation and obesity. I do eat fruit regularly, but in the natural form - a (small) apple, some berries, perhaps a peach or other succulent fruit in the summer. Not processed, concentrated and fiber-free near-synthetic juices unless I squeeze them myself.
ReplyDeleteTaking corn syrup which is mostly sucrose, adding extra fructose to it, and pumping it into all sorts of foods is a bad call, all around.
There is no question that sugar is bad for you. Studies that I have read found solid cancer rates were higher for drinkers of both sugared soft drinks and 100% fruit juices.
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