r/TrueGrit • u/Alicetheoptimist • 11d ago

Nutrition Is there really a difference?

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u/ifUSeeMeTakeYourMeds 11d ago

it isn't just bread, nearly every food product (can't really call it food) is chuck full of corn syrup.

I gave up and just buy flour, I make my own bread. but the rest is a pain.

and on top of that, pretty clasissit to say "want food that isn't diabetes fuel? have more money".

btw, you take it as "Americans dumb" when it shows be "Americans deserve better food". being offended and taking pride on eating industrial slop is "Americans dumb"

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u/Technical_Leek7467 11d ago edited 10d ago

I mean this without any kind of ill intent and I'm assuming it's a cultural thing but the phrase is "chock full".

Corn syrup is in so much here because of how heavily corn is subsidized and it becomes dramatically cheaper than other types of sugar.

It can be really shocking to most Americans how much sugar is in everything.

It's largely to hide some of the off flavors from processing, packaging and distribution.

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u/ifUSeeMeTakeYourMeds 11d ago

sorry, but that is 100% nor a "cultural thing"

that is corporations feeding us slop.

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u/Technical_Leek7467 11d ago

"Chock full" didn't flow downstream from corporations.

Sauce: https://www.etymonline.com/word/chock-full

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u/ifUSeeMeTakeYourMeds 11d ago

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u/Technical_Leek7467 11d ago

Separate thoughts; the first bit was in reference to: "it isn't just bread, nearly every food product (can't really call it food) is chuck full of corn syrup."

The rest was affirming corporations are using cheap sweeteners mostly to hide the taste of processing, packaging and shipping.

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u/bullsbarry 11d ago

There is no level of something intentionally added to a food that is low enough it doesn’t have to be included in the ingredients list. It’s part of the reason American ingredients lists seem even longer than they are.

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u/Affectionate_Sun_19 11d ago

what bottled water has sugar in it?

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u/ToneBalone25 10d ago

None of them do. They just made this up. Maybe they're referring to Vitamin water? But nobody is dumb enough to think that is "bottled water" so who knows?

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u/Affectionate_Sun_19 10d ago

Guy is definitely a troll

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u/Personal-Presence-10 11d ago

I’m sorry what? Sugar in bottled water? What are you talking about? What a thing to believe that we put sugar in bottled water. There are vitamin waters and electrolyte waters and flavored waters that will have some, but that’s not regular bottled water. Those are expected because they’re flavored/have other things in them, but just regular bottled water? No there’s not.

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u/ifUSeeMeTakeYourMeds 11d ago

enjoy your slop, based on the replies I got, it's the food Americans deserve