Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's

Re:Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's by smolder on Monday August 10, 2026 @12:36PM (#49246074)

I don't think so. I've seen things that say fructose has worse effects than sucrose in terms of spiking your blood sugar or whatever but that's minor compared to the overall impact of any sugar. Sugar is sweet because we were once starving beasts and calories were good. Now it's a hazard. And corn syrup gets dumped into all kinds of processed foods in the US because of how cheap it is, and how much people like sweet stuff.

We have shaped our food culture in a way to maximize short term profit at the expense of making everyone fat and disabled longer term.

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Re:Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's by vel0city on Monday August 10, 2026 @01:52PM (#49247229)

> I've seen things that say fructose has worse effects than sucrose

Sucrose is 50% fructose.

HFCS is ~42-55% fructose. Its "high fructose" compared to just straight corn syrup, which is 0% fructose (practically pure glucose).

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Re:Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's by modo_mario on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @05:48AM (#49255592)

>I've seen things that say fructose has worse effects than sucrose in terms of spiking your blood sugar or whatever but that's minor compared to the overall impact of any sugar

That sounds pretty major. You can be not in the slightest bit obese and the blood sugar spikes will still be bad for your brain, your insulin regulation, etc as far as I understand it.

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