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Re:Revealed: WHO aspartame safety panel linked to alleged Co... by jimbob45 on Friday August 18, 2023 @12:32PM (#37178104)
Sugar is really tough because a lot of popular items have much more sugar than most people realize. Consider this label of Kroger milk[0]. That's 12g of sugar in one cup. If you stick two cups in your breakfast, that's nearly 2/3 of the way to a can of coke and that's before you even consider how much sugar is in the cereal itself.

[0]https://www.kroger.com/product/images/large/left/00011110416...

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Re:Revealed: WHO aspartame safety panel linked to alleged Co... by Zelphyr on Friday August 18, 2023 @12:51PM (#37178436)
Agreed. There are over 50 different names for sugar that the FDA will accept on the ingredients list and you can bet your ass the food manufacturers will take advantage of that.

I saw a popular granola bar once that listed four different kinds of sugar as the first four ingredients. Of course, the rest of the packaging touted the bar as being "healthy"

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Re:Revealed: WHO aspartame safety panel linked to alleged Co... by 14 on Friday August 18, 2023 @12:55PM (#37178496)
Wow just checked my brand of milk and it is the same. I never paid attention or realized that before.
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Re:Revealed: WHO aspartame safety panel linked to alleged Co... by Zelphyr on Friday August 18, 2023 @12:59PM (#37178566)
Have a look at your peanut butter. That's right. The major food manufacturers add sugar to peanut butter.

One of the best peanut butters I've ever tasted was Crazy Richard's. Here's the ingredients list verbatim:

Peanuts. (No, seriously. That’s all.)

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Re:Revealed: WHO aspartame safety panel linked to alleged Co... by dragonwriter on Friday August 18, 2023 @01:22PM (#37178989)
If you like milk, ultrafiltered milk (Fairlife is the big national brand, though I think there are some smaller brands) may be a good option here; its more expensive, but has less sugar (and not with any substitution).
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Re:Revealed: WHO aspartame safety panel linked to alleged Co... by masfuerte on Friday August 18, 2023 @01:31PM (#37179141)
Many products have a great deal of added sugar, but the sugar in milk is naturally occurring lactose. It would be better to remove the breakfast cereal from your diet than the milk.
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Re:Revealed: WHO aspartame safety panel linked to alleged Co... by pfdietz on Friday August 18, 2023 @01:36PM (#37179231)
Naturally occurring sugar is still sugar.

And wait until you find out what's in fruit juice.

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Re:Revealed: WHO aspartame safety panel linked to alleged Co... by masfuerte on Friday August 18, 2023 @01:52PM (#37179502)
It's a distraction. America isn't obese because milk has naturally occurring sugars.
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