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  • Posts: 13,575 Member
    Hornsby wrote: »

    It just shows how a little logic needs to be applied sometimes.

    I fail to see the logic of mixing terms. Find me a banana with that list of ingredients on the label and perhaps I'll change my mind.
  • Posts: 29,136 Member
    I don't understand why challenges made to a certain point have to go to an extreme. This is elementary stuff.

    as elementary as eating more and lifting more to gain muscle mass..???
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    edited January 2015
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  • Posts: 10,736 Member

    You should eat whatever you want to eat for whatever reason you want. If you want to skip the yogurt because you can't pronounce the ingredients, then you should skip it. If you don't, then don't.
    Maybe ask someone to help you pronounce words you don't understand, just for future reference. Some of those big words are actually life saving nutrients. j/k

  • Posts: 30,886 Member
    I personally don't like it. I don't think it adds anything to my food besides a sweet flavor. I used to have a wicked sweet tooth -- I'd sugar my sugared cereals, get my coffees light and sweet -- and after many years of not adding sugar to anything and reading labels for added sugar I don't miss it. I can definitely tell when it's added to something like packaged bread and pasta sauces. IMO there's just no need for it. If I want sugar then I'll have something sweet. I don't need it in my food because someone thinks it makes it "taste better". Sorry, not to me.

    Re: "If I want sugar then I'll have something sweet"

    Yes, me too, but sometimes these "something sweet" things (like my homemade apple pie, or some ice cream or the aforementioned really good cannoli) involve adding sugar to them, and I see no reason why that makes those foods bad or something to be avoided. Due to the overall mix of ingredients in them (not mainly the sugar) they are high calorie and should be eaten in moderation, of course, but I see no reason why the sugar means they should be avoided beyond that.

    I personally dislike most packaged bread, would never eat a store-bought pasta sauce (barbaric), and have never enjoyed adding sugar to hot beverages or oatmeal, but some people like those things, and the amount of sugar involved probably makes little difference from a health or calorie perspective. I'm all for learning to like things less sweet if you are inclined that way, of course, but it's not necessary if the sugar in those things does matter to you. To use an analogous example, I don't care about sugar that much, but if I had to start cooking without salt it would bum me out. Not because I think I like things super salty, but because I learned to cook with salt as part of the process and I really believe it makes a real difference in the way the finished food comes together.
  • Posts: 38,460 MFP Moderator
    Lol


    Like this?

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    Having said that, I will be closing this thread. Between the hijacking and attacking and everything else that makes my head hurt.


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