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I picked up 24 oz "Green Tea" from the convenience store earlier. I forgot to check how sweet it was, 60g added sugars in the 706.8ml beverage. So this is like 8.5% sugar (g/ml). Obviously that's napkin math but this is showerthoughts, not theydidthemath

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[-] rinaderp@wetdry.world 1 points 1 year ago

while I'm all down for shaming the food industry into maybe not stuffing everything with added sugar, some of us need the amounts too.

As someone with type 1 diabetes, I need to know how much of everything (but especially carbs and kinds) to best guess how much insulin I need to dose before eating. Certainly there is a whole world of deceptive nutrition packaging to break down that doesn't help here, but the specific things you *must* report help to keep the labels honest enough to be workable.

I think the real issue is consumers have no idea what half of the ingredients are, or why they might or might not care about certain aspects of food. Nutritional science in general is very poorly researched. It's hard to get accurate data about what a diet does to people. Aside from locking someone in a room, feeding them everything they are to eat and controlling their activity (which paying volunteers in studies of that intensity is too costly for more than like n=1 studies), everything else is very unreliable. Many studies are backed up by surveys asking participants for what they ate for breakfast 6 months ago. As you might expect, no one remembers this crap, much less in useful detail.

[-] subignition@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I wasn't suggesting doing that instead of the labeling we have now, but in addition to it.

[-] AttackBunny@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I think the real issue is consumers ~~have no idea~~ don’t care what half of the ingredients are, or why they might or might not care about certain aspects of food.

Fixed that for you.

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