'New car smell' is the scent of carcinogens

Re:'New car smell' is the scent of carcinogens by Spivak on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @04:40PM (#26159129)

Of all the things to point out in commercial food production you chose basically the two most benign things.

Swapping refined sugar for HFCS 55 (the most common type) is basically an even trade sans some extra water content in the syrup and palm kernel oil is just saturated fat but sourced from a plant instead of animals.

I don’t think anyone is gonna argue that a high sugar and saturated fat diet is healthy but no worse than the same things sourced from other places. In an alternative universe palm oil and corn syrup would have been the standard and people would complain about the switch to lard and white sugar.

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Re:'New car smell' is the scent of carcinogens by forgotmypw17 on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @06:32PM (#26160241)

a) Refined sugar and HFCS both cause fatty liver about equally.

b) HFCS is sourced from corn, which means pesticide residue.

c) Palm oil also leads to fatty liver.

They may be an "even trade", but certainly harmful to one's health.

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Re:'New car smell' is the scent of carcinogens by Spivak on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @10:12AM (#26167162)

b) White sugar is sourced from sugar cane which is also grown with pesticides. In both cases you have to trust the respective refining processes to clean your food.

I absolutely agree with you that sugar and saturated fat in anything other than moderation is harmful to your health but that, in this case, the source of those things doesn't really matter.

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