Aren’t Americans tired of all the food being adulterated with high fructose corn syrup instead of sugar ? The soda, chocolate and everything else tastes like wax. I guess you’d only know if you consume products manufactured outside the US. A good comparison for this is how Mexican coke tastes so much better than American coke. Same with how KitKat(sold by Hershey’s in US) tastes disgusting compared to KitKat worldwide(sold by Nestle) I understand the cause is due to cheap corn subsidies by the government but damn, this shit is disgusting.
You can always buy Mexican Coke (and other products that do not use high fructose corn syrup) in American grocery stores anyways. They just cost more ;)
That and the large portion sizes and not tackling obesity at its root cause. Just look at how the US soda companies destroyed Mexico taking them form a healthy county to chronic obesity.
It takes effort, but it’s easy to avoid, even at stores like Costco
You're right, Mexican coke hits different, just don't know which grocery stores got it though
Costco usually has it. Other than that chipotle, Hispanic super markets amongst others
Thanks you didn't catch my drift :)
US gov subsidizes growing of corn so it is a lot cheaper than real sugar. Pretty simple economics.
I just don't eat food with high fructose corn syrup for the most part. These foods are pretty bad for you whether it is sugar or the corn syrup.
Americans have to buy what's available and corn additive foods are cheap and available. Whole foods and vegetable fondling with a yoga mat folded up under your arm isn't an option for most Americans whose average salary is way way lower than ours. The corn growing industry is very powerful and lobbies hard to get their cheap mass grown muck put into everything, from ethanol in gasoline to adding sweeteners to all kinds of food that aren't sweetened overseas. The food here is shit because in America you are a consumer first and a citizen second. There is less consumer protection here than overseas so the good stuff is overseas and the cheap toxic shit is dumped here. This is what happens when corporations run everything.
I don't know man whole foods ain't that expensive compared to Giant/etc ... I think Amercian's generally prefer the other shit and really couldn't care less. Plus they like to eat a lot of shit, so it all adds up.
HFCS keeps me shredded so I'm okay with the consequences over consuming sugar. I don't consume enough sugary things for it to really make a difference either way.
From the healthiness perspective, sugar is not that different from high fructose corn syrup. Both are about half and half glucose and fructose. In an experiment glucose caused even more weight gain than fructose. https://www.precisionnutrition.com/research-review-fructose-vs-glucose
Listen to Dr Robert Lustig https://youtu.be/zXiQgTZZqPg
I prefer reading data and results from experiments instead of listening to biased individuals.
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Absolutely, don’t even get me started on that. It would be nice if the government/healthcare has an iota of care about these side effects.