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Re:PepsiCo Wants to Sell Healthy Food, Consumers Want Chips by zeroer on Sunday December 11, 2016 @08:03PM (#13154673)
The WSJ and Pepsi mention " Quaker oatmeal, Naked juice and Sabra hummus" as "good for you" foods.

I've never tried Sabra hummus, but the others are super sugary. A couple years ago I made a conscious attempt to eat less salt and sugar, and once you do so it's amazing how much sugar you notice added to virtually every processed food you'll find at a grocery store.

Cooking food from scratch is basically the only way to have control over your diet.

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Re:PepsiCo Wants to Sell Healthy Food, Consumers Want Chips by fotbr on Sunday December 11, 2016 @08:16PM (#13154748)
I suppose if they include Quaker oats in "oatmeal", then they might count as "good for you" -- but the pre-packaged instant oatmeal is sugar filled and probably shouldn't be included. Too many variations under one brand.
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Re:PepsiCo Wants to Sell Healthy Food, Consumers Want Chips by KKKKkkkk1 on Sunday December 11, 2016 @08:09PM (#13154701)
I've seen jars of honey-and-mustard and chocolate-chip hummus in the grocery store in the US. Needless to say, this is not how people eat hummus anywhere else in the world.
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Re:PepsiCo Wants to Sell Healthy Food, Consumers Want Chips by Avshalom on Sunday December 11, 2016 @08:17PM (#13154752)
instead they just leave out the chickpeas and call it halva...
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Re:PepsiCo Wants to Sell Healthy Food, Consumers Want Chips by tyingq on Monday December 12, 2016 @08:07AM (#13157756)
Sabra's nutrition label seems to indicate no added sugar: http://i.imgur.com/1BstN2i.png
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Re:PepsiCo Wants to Sell Healthy Food, Consumers Want Chips by zeroer on Monday December 12, 2016 @09:51AM (#13158389)
Good point. After seeing the picture, I think I have had this. It's pretty good.
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Re:PepsiCo Wants to Sell Healthy Food, Consumers Want Chips by miend on Sunday December 11, 2016 @09:46PM (#13155118)
Quaker oatmeal is sugary? I thought it was simply "oats". I've never noticed any sugar that I haven't added myself.
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Re:PepsiCo Wants to Sell Healthy Food, Consumers Want Chips by plorkyeran on Sunday December 11, 2016 @10:39PM (#13155325)
They do sell just plain oats with no other ingredients, but the instant oatmeal has a whole bunch of added sugar and the marketing deliberately conflates the two.
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