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Re:“Joy of Cooking” versus the Food Scientist by vonmoltke on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @05:17PM (#16642503)
> A tablespoon of ketchup has more sugar than a chocolate chip cookie.

Ketchup has about 1/3 the calories of a chocolate chip cookie. What does it matter that it has the same amount of sugar?

Re:“Joy of Cooking” versus the Food Scientist by conistonwater on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @05:42PM (#16642681)
In addition, out of sauces ketchup is really the odd one out, most normal sauces and dressings are not supposed to contain sugar at all.
Re:“Joy of Cooking” versus the Food Scientist by WillPostForFood on Thursday March 22, 2018 @04:06AM (#16646732)
There is a big gap between ‘supposed to’ and the real world. Pick up any bottled dressing at a typical grocery store, and sugar or corn syrup will likely be a top ingredient. See the totally unnecessary addition to ranch dressing, for example:

http://www.kraftrecipes.com/products/kraft-16-fo-dressing-li...

Or even if you are making your own, a surprising number have sugar or honey as ingredients.

https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/italian-vinaigrette

Re:“Joy of Cooking” versus the Food Scientist by vonmoltke on Thursday March 22, 2018 @07:53AM (#16647774)
Who decides what something is "supposed to" contain? Why is it relevant?
Re:“Joy of Cooking” versus the Food Scientist by vkou on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @05:46PM (#16642718)
While we're on the subject of questionably-relevant comparisons, remember that bacon contains 500% more vitamin C, and 100% less sugar than Coca Cola.
Re:“Joy of Cooking” versus the Food Scientist by WillPostForFood on Thursday March 22, 2018 @04:04AM (#16646722)
And coke makes you fat and gives you diabetes while bacon doesn’t. So it is actually an interesting comparison. Well, the sugar part.
Re:“Joy of Cooking” versus the Food Scientist by vonmoltke on Thursday March 22, 2018 @07:51AM (#16647760)
How is that reasonably relevant? I can cherry-pick nutritional information to make any absurd comparison I want.
Re:“Joy of Cooking” versus the Food Scientist by vkou on Thursday March 22, 2018 @03:10PM (#16651694)
Which is what comparing the sugar content of ketchup and a chocolate chip cookie is. There's less sugar in a cookie than Ketchup, but ~3 times more carbs.

I was agreeing with your point.