Well, to be fair to the parent commenter, Nutella contains about 2/3 the calories of gasoline per unit of weight, so the confusion is understandable. :P

I thought Nutella was famous for two things, neither of them palm oil: Using some crazy percentage of the world's hazelnut supply - a half, a quarter? Not sure. Also for changing the recipe to a new, awful one. Though maybe this added the palm oil.

Palm oil seems to be getting used to substitute other oils and and ingredients in just about everything processed lately.

Not only Nutella, the company Ferrero Overall uses this amount of hazelnuts, but it's also other products. Nutella is just the flagship product.

> have you heard of Nutella?

Always wonder who's buying Nutella. Sugar and palmoil.

Because if there's one basic nutrition fact we all know, it's that humans aren't attracted to sugar and fat.

In America nutella is an obscure condiment generally considered too desserty to be useful for much, sort of like "marshmellow spread". Yet the average European gets approximately 80-90% of their yearly caloric intake from Nutella, from what I've gathered.

I buy the large jar of Nutella. ~American

You can make any food sound ridiculous by reducing it to its ingredients.

Nutella started as mix of hazelnuts and chocolate (to save on chocolate in Piedmont Italy) now more then 50% of its content is palmoil and sugar. What happend?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutella

I mean it's not really a big mystery, I'm not sure where this discussion is going. A ton of super popular food is ridiculously unhealthy. Coca Cola is basically super-sweet water. Jams don't usually have added fats but they do have a ton of sugar. Cotton Candy is literally only sugar (and some colorant I suppose).

Clearly the incentives here are simple, you want to make a product that people like as much as possible while making it as cheaply as possible. Health is not really a factor, insofar as not too many people don't drop your product because they see it as unhealthy (ads will help with that, all Nutella ads I've seen in France focus on "giving energy to children for their activities" or some bullshit like that).

So that's how you end up with something that's mainly palm oil and sugar. The market has spoken. I'm sure that if they reverted back to their original recipe they'd lose a significant amount of clients.

You can buy spreads which are just hazelnuts and chocolate. But they cost several times as much as nutella, unsurprisingly.

> I'm not sure where this discussion is going

we are invastigating how food insdustry transformed healthy snacks into palmoil and sugar to great harm for sumatrean jungle and its habitat.

What? Not all foods are sugar and oil. Healthy foods have fiber, protein, and complex starches.

Commenter probable survives on Soylent.

Not tofu. It's beans.

Italians.