Sugar

[Perd Hapley]

http://acsh.org/news/2016/10/07/center-science-public-interest-now-wants-sugar-removed-fruit-too-10273

I've long ridiculed anyone who claims buying a gigantic fruit drink in Whole Foods believing it is healthier because it contains "evaporated cane juice" (that's sugar, but Whole Foods shoppers don't want sugar, so health food marketing groups gave it a new name) is ridiculous. Fruit has sugar. Fruit is natural. It only makes sense that some marketing group would capitalize on natural claims once it became a fad - a fad promoted by anti-science groups like CSPI that successfully duped the public into a naturalistic fallacy with their never-ending war on "chemicals."

Removing the sugar from fruit would be unnatural, and natural is what CSPI has long promoted, in order to shake down companies for money, so this is ironic. Oranges are a corporate conspiracy....

CSPI's lawsuit claims the marketing for PepsiCo's Naked Juice is "misleading" because it can have more sugar than some of Pepsi's cola drinks. Who didn't know that? It's right on their labels, labels that CSPI sued and lobbied to get put in place, but Pepsi didn't create that sugar, nature did. Fruit has sugar, and an organic apple has a lot of sugar, just like a conventional one.

And I guess the FDA wants them to call ECJ "sugar" on the labels, now.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/05/26/479494486/evaporated-cane-juice-puh-leeze-just-call-it-sugar-fda-says


I just found this amusing. Personally, I'm not too picky about how I get my sugar. For some reason, I like to avoid juice with added sugar. Usually, that limits me to grape, grapefruit, or apple. Which is not bad.

[griz]

Clearly a conspiracy by the big fruit companies.  Everybody knows the fruit grows naturally but sugar comes in bags at the grocery store.   

[Perd Hapley]

Sprinkler rainbow lady's next video - "Why are they putting sugar in all our fruit?"

[wmenorr67]

So the PC term is now ECJ Daddy/Momma?

[Fly320s]

I get my sugar the natural way: I take it from my kids' Halloween candy buckets.