Fed Up Movie - hidden sugars
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I just really amuses me about how people want to demonize sugar as the devil... I don't drink soft drinks regularly (I might have 1 or 2 a year and those more often than not will be diet drinks), I don't drink sweet tea and I rarely eat dessert - yet I was obese! Where's all that sugar that made me fat?!?!?!?
I also don't demonize sugar, but did you eat in restaurants? Because many restaurant meals that look like regular food contain the equivalent sugar of several candy bars (60-80 grams). Most of this is not from fruits and veggies but rather from sugar laden sauces and dressings. Even a whole day of my diet where I eat a generous amount of fruits and veggies doesn't top 40 g of sugar. So, the " hidden" or "added" sugar issue is not a hoax.
Of course, these meals also contain huge amounts of fat and salt and calories. It's no mystery on how to make food highly palatable - just add in lots of sugar and fat and salt. That's the main "secret" that chefs and food designers know.5 -
I just really amuses me about how people want to demonize sugar as the devil... I don't drink soft drinks regularly (I might have 1 or 2 a year and those more often than not will be diet drinks), I don't drink sweet tea and I rarely eat dessert - yet I was obese! Where's all that sugar that made me fat?!?!?!?
I also don't demonize sugar, but did you eat in restaurants? Because many restaurant meals that look like regular food contain the equivalent sugar of several candy bars (60-80 grams). Most of this is not from fruits and veggies but rather from sugar laden sauces and dressings. Even a whole day of my diet where I eat a generous amount of fruits and veggies doesn't top 40 g of sugar. So, the " hidden" or "added" sugar issue is not a hoax.
Of course, these meals also contain huge amounts of fat and salt and calories. It's no mystery on how to make food highly palatable - just add in lots of sugar and fat and salt. That's the main "secret" that chefs and food designers know.
I don't get how restaurant food that contains sugar is irregular.
Also, it's not hidden if you know how to read an ingredients list. If there's THAT much sugar in something it has to be listed.
ALSO, added is not the same as hidden.10 -
I just really amuses me about how people want to demonize sugar as the devil... I don't drink soft drinks regularly (I might have 1 or 2 a year and those more often than not will be diet drinks), I don't drink sweet tea and I rarely eat dessert - yet I was obese! Where's all that sugar that made me fat?!?!?!?
I also don't demonize sugar, but did you eat in restaurants? Because many restaurant meals that look like regular food contain the equivalent sugar of several candy bars (60-80 grams). Most of this is not from fruits and veggies but rather from sugar laden sauces and dressings. Even a whole day of my diet where I eat a generous amount of fruits and veggies doesn't top 40 g of sugar. So, the " hidden" or "added" sugar issue is not a hoax.
Of course, these meals also contain huge amounts of fat and salt and calories. It's no mystery on how to make food highly palatable - just add in lots of sugar and fat and salt. That's the main "secret" that chefs and food designers know.
I don't get how restaurant food that contains sugar is irregular.
Also, it's not hidden if you know how to read an ingredients list. If there's THAT much sugar in something it has to be listed.
ALSO, added is not the same as hidden.
I don't know how old the referenced documentary is, but restaurants didn't used to provide nutritional info like they do now, so " hidden" was a more correct term at one time.1 -
I just really amuses me about how people want to demonize sugar as the devil... I don't drink soft drinks regularly (I might have 1 or 2 a year and those more often than not will be diet drinks), I don't drink sweet tea and I rarely eat dessert - yet I was obese! Where's all that sugar that made me fat?!?!?!?
I also don't demonize sugar, but did you eat in restaurants? Because many restaurant meals that look like regular food contain the equivalent sugar of several candy bars (60-80 grams). Most of this is not from fruits and veggies but rather from sugar laden sauces and dressings. Even a whole day of my diet where I eat a generous amount of fruits and veggies doesn't top 40 g of sugar. So, the " hidden" or "added" sugar issue is not a hoax.
Of course, these meals also contain huge amounts of fat and salt and calories. It's no mystery on how to make food highly palatable - just add in lots of sugar and fat and salt. That's the main "secret" that chefs and food designers know.
How many examples can you give of meals intended to be savory that have 60-80 grams of sugar? Stay away from anything with the word honey because those are expected to have a higher sugar content.
I had Logan Roadhouse on the brain because I just met someone there for lunch and it was mentioned in another post I was reading. This national chain has NO entree food with that much sugar and to get even close you have to look at the beverages.
ETA: I just checked Famous Dave because BBQ is well known for having a lot of brown sugar in it. Once again not one single serve entree had that much sugar. Certainly more sugar than you get from other types of food but not 60-80.
ETAA: It occurs to me that breakfast food will have more sugar but I believe that is not really a shock to anyone.16 -
jhanleybrown wrote: »Read the posted critique from Muscleflex.
Non scientific sample of 1...if I am trying to hit a net calorie number its 10x harder if I eat high calorie sugary stuff because I get hungry again faster.
I suspect sugar is correlated with obesity. But its probably also related to not getting cals from vegetables, protein and healthy fat which keep you full longer.
There's an argument that the 80s, 90s low fat craze was actually very counter productive because people amped sugar to make stuff taste better with less fat. But ultimately upped calories as a result.
People did not actually eat low fat in the '80s and '90s. The amount of cals from fat that people ate continued to increase.
For me "high calorie sugary stuff" typically would have about half its cals from fat, also. That they have fat doesn't cause those foods to be particularly satiating for me, but I can include them in moderation without being hungry if my overall diet is sensible.
Yes ma'am. The overall caloric intake from fat has continued to rise, the intake of sugar has fallen. Yet obesity rates rose and are still rising, given at a lower rate. To quote a hero of mine, "If people had followed the USDA guidelines in spirit and use. We would probably be leaner now!"9 -
I just really amuses me about how people want to demonize sugar as the devil... I don't drink soft drinks regularly (I might have 1 or 2 a year and those more often than not will be diet drinks), I don't drink sweet tea and I rarely eat dessert - yet I was obese! Where's all that sugar that made me fat?!?!?!?
I also don't demonize sugar, but did you eat in restaurants? Because many restaurant meals that look like regular food contain the equivalent sugar of several candy bars (60-80 grams). Most of this is not from fruits and veggies but rather from sugar laden sauces and dressings. Even a whole day of my diet where I eat a generous amount of fruits and veggies doesn't top 40 g of sugar. So, the " hidden" or "added" sugar issue is not a hoax.
Of course, these meals also contain huge amounts of fat and salt and calories. It's no mystery on how to make food highly palatable - just add in lots of sugar and fat and salt. That's the main "secret" that chefs and food designers know.
How many examples can you give of meals intended to be savory that have 60-80 grams of sugar? Stay away from anything with the word honey because those are expected to have a higher sugar content.
I had Logan Roadhouse on the brain because I just met someone there for lunch and it was mentioned in another post I was reading. This national chain has NO entree food with that much sugar and to get even close you have to look at the beverages.
ETA: I just checked Famous Dave because BBQ is well known for having a lot of brown sugar in it. Once again not one single serve entree had that much sugar. Certainly more sugar than you get from other types of food but not 60-80.
ETAA: It occurs to me that breakfast food will have more sugar but I believe that is not really a shock to anyone.
The article I found online was a few years old. Most of the meals were salads (from the dressing), breakfast as you mentioned, BBQ, or Asian. It's possible that the recent requirement to list nutrition info has actually had the effect that restaurants have reduced some of the sugar in their entrees.
As I said, I didn't see the movie. I don't demonize sugar. However, I don't deny that people often don't realize that sugar is in a lot of foods that don't seem like dessert and it is possible to get a lot of added sugar without drinking much soda or eating much dessert.
Remember that the vast majority of people are incredibly ignorant about nutrition. Perhaps the real cause of obesity is our hatred of knowledge. 😁1 -
I just really amuses me about how people want to demonize sugar as the devil... I don't drink soft drinks regularly (I might have 1 or 2 a year and those more often than not will be diet drinks), I don't drink sweet tea and I rarely eat dessert - yet I was obese! Where's all that sugar that made me fat?!?!?!?
I also don't demonize sugar, but did you eat in restaurants? Because many restaurant meals that look like regular food contain the equivalent sugar of several candy bars (60-80 grams). Most of this is not from fruits and veggies but rather from sugar laden sauces and dressings. Even a whole day of my diet where I eat a generous amount of fruits and veggies doesn't top 40 g of sugar. So, the " hidden" or "added" sugar issue is not a hoax.
Of course, these meals also contain huge amounts of fat and salt and calories. It's no mystery on how to make food highly palatable - just add in lots of sugar and fat and salt. That's the main "secret" that chefs and food designers know.
How many examples can you give of meals intended to be savory that have 60-80 grams of sugar? Stay away from anything with the word honey because those are expected to have a higher sugar content.
I had Logan Roadhouse on the brain because I just met someone there for lunch and it was mentioned in another post I was reading. This national chain has NO entree food with that much sugar and to get even close you have to look at the beverages.
ETA: I just checked Famous Dave because BBQ is well known for having a lot of brown sugar in it. Once again not one single serve entree had that much sugar. Certainly more sugar than you get from other types of food but not 60-80.
ETAA: It occurs to me that breakfast food will have more sugar but I believe that is not really a shock to anyone.
The article I found online was a few years old. Most of the meals were salads (from the dressing), breakfast as you mentioned, BBQ, or Asian. It's possible that the recent requirement to list nutrition info has actually had the effect that restaurants have reduced some of the sugar in their entrees.
As I said, I didn't see the movie. I don't demonize sugar. However, I don't deny that people often don't realize that sugar is in a lot of foods that don't seem like dessert and it is possible to get a lot of added sugar without drinking much soda or eating much dessert.
Remember that the vast majority of people are incredibly ignorant about nutrition. Perhaps the real cause of obesity is our hatred of knowledge. 😁
Well... that's the price people pay when they outsource food preparation to the "industry"....4 -
I just really amuses me about how people want to demonize sugar as the devil... I don't drink soft drinks regularly (I might have 1 or 2 a year and those more often than not will be diet drinks), I don't drink sweet tea and I rarely eat dessert - yet I was obese! Where's all that sugar that made me fat?!?!?!?
I also don't demonize sugar, but did you eat in restaurants? Because many restaurant meals that look like regular food contain the equivalent sugar of several candy bars (60-80 grams). Most of this is not from fruits and veggies but rather from sugar laden sauces and dressings. Even a whole day of my diet where I eat a generous amount of fruits and veggies doesn't top 40 g of sugar. So, the " hidden" or "added" sugar issue is not a hoax.
Of course, these meals also contain huge amounts of fat and salt and calories. It's no mystery on how to make food highly palatable - just add in lots of sugar and fat and salt. That's the main "secret" that chefs and food designers know.
How many examples can you give of meals intended to be savory that have 60-80 grams of sugar? Stay away from anything with the word honey because those are expected to have a higher sugar content.
I had Logan Roadhouse on the brain because I just met someone there for lunch and it was mentioned in another post I was reading. This national chain has NO entree food with that much sugar and to get even close you have to look at the beverages.
ETA: I just checked Famous Dave because BBQ is well known for having a lot of brown sugar in it. Once again not one single serve entree had that much sugar. Certainly more sugar than you get from other types of food but not 60-80.
ETAA: It occurs to me that breakfast food will have more sugar but I believe that is not really a shock to anyone.
The article I found online was a few years old. Most of the meals were salads (from the dressing), breakfast as you mentioned, BBQ, or Asian. It's possible that the recent requirement to list nutrition info has actually had the effect that restaurants have reduced some of the sugar in their entrees.
As I said, I didn't see the movie. I don't demonize sugar. However, I don't deny that people often don't realize that sugar is in a lot of foods that don't seem like dessert and it is possible to get a lot of added sugar without drinking much soda or eating much dessert.
Remember that the vast majority of people are incredibly ignorant about nutrition. Perhaps the real cause of obesity is our hatred of knowledge. 😁
It is more likely that the article was using sensationalism to sell clicks. You cannot mask that much sugar in savory food. Some salad dressings are sweet like 1000 Island and French but I have never been to a restaurant that put 8 or more ounces of salad dressing on their salad to get to that sugar level.
There are ways of getting more sugar into a salad like candied nuts but there again you should not be surprised you are getting sugar.
Even breakfast food without syrup is going to be high but not several candy bars high unless you eat a large volume. Things with syrup already added or powdered sugar are not exactly "hidden".
This is not a new change it is just another example of bad information on the internet. The only way I can think of to mask or hide that much sugar would be to make the dish so spicy hot you couldn't taste anything else and I am not even sure that would work.
This is not a chef's secret in savory dishes. Fat and salt, yes. 60-80 grams of sugar... nope. Everyone would be sending their food back.15 -
As I said, I didn't see the movie. I don't demonize sugar. However, I don't deny that people often don't realize that sugar is in a lot of foods that don't seem like dessert and it is possible to get a lot of added sugar without drinking much soda or eating much dessert.
Remember that the vast majority of people are incredibly ignorant about nutrition. Perhaps the real cause of obesity is our hatred of knowledge. 😁
I think I've seen that claim in a food-doc, and it was in connection with some other questionable ones (like a way of talking about pasta sauce that was exaggerated).
I also don't think the average person eats out at such restaurants frequently enough for it to matter (fast food is probably more common and the heaviest sugar sources there are mainly soda and desserts).
I don't disagree that most people are kind of clueless about what's in what (mostly because the average person wants to eat what they want and not think about it too much), but I think the hidden sugar thing is really trumped up to try and blame everyone but the consumer. If you look at the actual breakdowns of the main sources of sugar in the diet, it's not savory sauces or salad dressing, it's soda and other sugary drinks, sugary cereal, dessert foods of various types, and to some degree flavored yogurts, stuff that's pretty obvious.
I admit my pet peeve is people refusing to use common sense and then blaming others (I HATE the taste of salad dressings with sweetness, so find it hard to believe one could get lots of sugar from a dressing and not notice, and this is from someone who does believe many people think salads are the low cal choice when so many are calorie bombs). In either the same doc or some other, some person was presented as a victim because she'd been assuming Hot Pocket Leans were some nutritional powerhouse and also assumed you couldn't gain weight eating them, or some such.7 -
Hidden sugars:
I eat mostly, though not entirely, what most people would call "whole foods" (which I think is a mostly pointless term). Pretty much every day, I exceed my MFP default sugar goal (depending on exercise calories, that goal is usually in the low 70s of grams; I usually eat something in the 80s to 100g or so of sugars (that's the equivalent of several candy bars!!!)).
Many of those days, the only added sugars I eat are a little bit of added sweetening in my commercial fruit-flavored kefir, and a tablespoon of blackstrap molasses. The added sugars in those amount to around 16g. Everything else is inherent sugars in no-sugar-added dairy foods, fruit, or vegetables.
I think I found the "hidden sugars": "Hidden sugars" (which are not in the ingredients list) = "Inherent sugars", not "added sugars" (which are clearly listed in the ingredients list under various names).
(When I'm not joking around, I agree with lemurcat2.)7 -
I don't take sugar into consideration when I choose foods. I eat a lot of convenience foods - jarred sauce, frozen dinners, bottled dressing, store bought bread. The only time I exceed the mfp sugar goal is on days where I eat a lot of obviously sweet foods. In my experience, all the "hidden sugar" noise even back in the day was overly dramatic and mostly fear mongering.
The average American eats too much sugar because they eat too many sweet treats while eating & drinking too many calories, period.6 -
I eat a salad with peanut dressing. It's a) 2 tbsp (2g of sugar, 3 carb) or b) 2 tbsp (8 g of sugar, 9 carb) or c)2 tbsp (10 g of sugar and 11 carbs). I doubt if a person could tell the difference.0
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I go over my sugar MFP goal a lot.
Because I eat a lot of fruit.
It's the sugar in 'healthy' things that people often find surprising; if I eat three huge pears in a day (which I quite often do, because I like pears and the ones we get delivered at work are massive) then I've had sugar equivalent to two doughnuts. And sugar is sugar.
Of course, the doughnuts are more fattening. But that's nothing to do with the sugar, it's because they're full of fat. And that's the same for chocolate and cake and most other foods that are demonised for their sugar content as well.3 -
I just really amuses me about how people want to demonize sugar as the devil... I don't drink soft drinks regularly (I might have 1 or 2 a year and those more often than not will be diet drinks), I don't drink sweet tea and I rarely eat dessert - yet I was obese! Where's all that sugar that made me fat?!?!?!?
I also don't demonize sugar, but did you eat in restaurants? Because many restaurant meals that look like regular food contain the equivalent sugar of several candy bars (60-80 grams). Most of this is not from fruits and veggies but rather from sugar laden sauces and dressings. Even a whole day of my diet where I eat a generous amount of fruits and veggies doesn't top 40 g of sugar. So, the " hidden" or "added" sugar issue is not a hoax.
Of course, these meals also contain huge amounts of fat and salt and calories. It's no mystery on how to make food highly palatable - just add in lots of sugar and fat and salt. That's the main "secret" that chefs and food designers know.
60-80 grams of sugar is a lot, even for a sweet food. I really highly doubt it, unless by a meal you mean eating 6 glazed donuts. A savory food with that much added sugar would be inedible. For what it's worth, I get 15 or more grams of sugar a day just from tomatoes without counting anything else, so I do find myself over 40 grams of sugar often.8 -
It’s not necessarily the “secret ingredients” that make us gain weight, it’s eating more calories than your body burns. The things that make foods taste good are naturally occurring in foods as well. Prepared foods, sauces, condiments etc, do have added sugars, sodium and fat. This is not limited to restaurant meals. I would guess many of us have foods in our homes we have purchased with these added ingredients. Demonizing foods serves no useful purpose and is counterproductive. Portion control, moderation, staying within your calorie budget is all it takes to manage weight, whether you want to lose, maintain, or gain weight.6
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amusedmonkey wrote: »I just really amuses me about how people want to demonize sugar as the devil... I don't drink soft drinks regularly (I might have 1 or 2 a year and those more often than not will be diet drinks), I don't drink sweet tea and I rarely eat dessert - yet I was obese! Where's all that sugar that made me fat?!?!?!?
I also don't demonize sugar, but did you eat in restaurants? Because many restaurant meals that look like regular food contain the equivalent sugar of several candy bars (60-80 grams). Most of this is not from fruits and veggies but rather from sugar laden sauces and dressings. Even a whole day of my diet where I eat a generous amount of fruits and veggies doesn't top 40 g of sugar. So, the " hidden" or "added" sugar issue is not a hoax.
Of course, these meals also contain huge amounts of fat and salt and calories. It's no mystery on how to make food highly palatable - just add in lots of sugar and fat and salt. That's the main "secret" that chefs and food designers know.
60-80 grams of sugar is a lot, even for a sweet food. I really highly doubt it, unless by a meal you mean eating 6 glazed donuts. A savory food with that much added sugar would be inedible. For what it's worth, I get 15 or more grams of sugar a day just from tomatoes without counting anything else, so I do find myself over 40 grams of sugar often.
You know, this is ringing a bell, and I wonder if the poster IS thinking of the movie claim about pasta sauce, which I've seen repeated all over the internet and in places like the Daily Mail (none of which are great sources).
What was misleading about it is that they made a big dramatic point about how the jar (of 12 servings or whatever) had as much sugar as some number of candy bars, ignoring the fact that no one eats a whole jar of pasta sauce on a meal, sigh, and that one serving had, say, 7 g, of some percentage of the sugar was inherent -- in the tomatoes, etc.
I made a recipe for a common meat sauce I make, that has a lot of tomatoes and various other veg (like onion, peppers, carrots, spinach) and used to show that a serving had just about as much sugar as the dreaded sauce in question, even though in my case I knew there was NO added sugar. I think the added sugar on labels will be helpful to at least make it easier to contradict some of the misinformation.
Anyway, if the poster is thinking of that, I understand misremembering (not blaming her!), and I also recall getting really disgusted at the movie at the time, since the claim seemed so dishonest.8 -
amusedmonkey wrote: »I just really amuses me about how people want to demonize sugar as the devil... I don't drink soft drinks regularly (I might have 1 or 2 a year and those more often than not will be diet drinks), I don't drink sweet tea and I rarely eat dessert - yet I was obese! Where's all that sugar that made me fat?!?!?!?
I also don't demonize sugar, but did you eat in restaurants? Because many restaurant meals that look like regular food contain the equivalent sugar of several candy bars (60-80 grams). Most of this is not from fruits and veggies but rather from sugar laden sauces and dressings. Even a whole day of my diet where I eat a generous amount of fruits and veggies doesn't top 40 g of sugar. So, the " hidden" or "added" sugar issue is not a hoax.
Of course, these meals also contain huge amounts of fat and salt and calories. It's no mystery on how to make food highly palatable - just add in lots of sugar and fat and salt. That's the main "secret" that chefs and food designers know.
60-80 grams of sugar is a lot, even for a sweet food. I really highly doubt it, unless by a meal you mean eating 6 glazed donuts. A savory food with that much added sugar would be inedible. For what it's worth, I get 15 or more grams of sugar a day just from tomatoes without counting anything else, so I do find myself over 40 grams of sugar often.
You know, this is ringing a bell, and I wonder if the poster IS thinking of the movie claim about pasta sauce, which I've seen repeated all over the internet and in places like the Daily Mail (none of which are great sources).
What was misleading about it is that they made a big dramatic point about how the jar (of 12 servings or whatever) had as much sugar as some number of candy bars, ignoring the fact that no one eats a whole jar of pasta sauce on a meal, sigh, and that one serving had, say, 7 g, of some percentage of the sugar was inherent -- in the tomatoes, etc.
I made a recipe for a common meat sauce I make, that has a lot of tomatoes and various other veg (like onion, peppers, carrots, spinach) and used to show that a serving had just about as much sugar as the dreaded sauce in question, even though in my case I knew there was NO added sugar. I think the added sugar on labels will be helpful to at least make it easier to contradict some of the misinformation.
Anyway, if the poster is thinking of that, I understand misremembering (not blaming her!), and I also recall getting really disgusted at the movie at the time, since the claim seemed so dishonest.
It is also a very classic technique to add a little sugar to tomato sauce which is something that I am not sure many people would know.
I was also thinking about the 60-80 thing and I wonder if it was a misrepresentation. If you look at a large batch of a sauce it might have that much. A single serving would not.7 -
So this!! If Americans are really worried about obesity, they need to be more concerned about PORTION SIZES, and not demonize sugar as the issue.Muscleflex79 wrote: »Having read a Reddit about obesity in various countries, someone up thread referenced the movie Fed Up - so we watched it yesterday. It's about sugar in processed food and the food industry. That was a bit of an eye opener.
Ever wondered why there is no recommended daily intake for sugar on packaging like there is for every other food group? All to do with politics. I even googled what is the RDA for sugar and struggled to get an answer.
Worth watching for sure.
if you are interested in facts and science-based information, you should not be getting your info from advocacy documentaries...Fed Up especially is known as having a lot of BS...here are a few reasons why...
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/does-the-movie-fed-up-make-sense/
here is just a snippet from the website above:
This webpage lists per capita sugar consumption by country, and it clearly does not correlate with rates of obesity in those countries. Countries with higher per capita sugar consumption than the US include Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Denmark, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Iceland, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, UK, and Venezuela. According to this source there are 17 countries with higher rates of obesity than the US. Not a single one of those countries has a higher per capita sugar consumption than the US.
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Lol, I scoff at people blaming Asian food for weight gain. The majority of Asians in the world don't have obesity issues eating their own food. Yes, the sauces included.I just really amuses me about how people want to demonize sugar as the devil... I don't drink soft drinks regularly (I might have 1 or 2 a year and those more often than not will be diet drinks), I don't drink sweet tea and I rarely eat dessert - yet I was obese! Where's all that sugar that made me fat?!?!?!?
I also don't demonize sugar, but did you eat in restaurants? Because many restaurant meals that look like regular food contain the equivalent sugar of several candy bars (60-80 grams). Most of this is not from fruits and veggies but rather from sugar laden sauces and dressings. Even a whole day of my diet where I eat a generous amount of fruits and veggies doesn't top 40 g of sugar. So, the " hidden" or "added" sugar issue is not a hoax.
Of course, these meals also contain huge amounts of fat and salt and calories. It's no mystery on how to make food highly palatable - just add in lots of sugar and fat and salt. That's the main "secret" that chefs and food designers know.
How many examples can you give of meals intended to be savory that have 60-80 grams of sugar? Stay away from anything with the word honey because those are expected to have a higher sugar content.
I had Logan Roadhouse on the brain because I just met someone there for lunch and it was mentioned in another post I was reading. This national chain has NO entree food with that much sugar and to get even close you have to look at the beverages.
ETA: I just checked Famous Dave because BBQ is well known for having a lot of brown sugar in it. Once again not one single serve entree had that much sugar. Certainly more sugar than you get from other types of food but not 60-80.
ETAA: It occurs to me that breakfast food will have more sugar but I believe that is not really a shock to anyone.
The article I found online was a few years old. Most of the meals were salads (from the dressing), breakfast as you mentioned, BBQ, or Asian. It's possible that the recent requirement to list nutrition info has actually had the effect that restaurants have reduced some of the sugar in their entrees.
As I said, I didn't see the movie. I don't demonize sugar. However, I don't deny that people often don't realize that sugar is in a lot of foods that don't seem like dessert and it is possible to get a lot of added sugar without drinking much soda or eating much dessert.
Remember that the vast majority of people are incredibly ignorant about nutrition. Perhaps the real cause of obesity is our hatred of knowledge. 😁
A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
IDEA Fitness member
Kickboxing Certified Instructor
Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition
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I just really amuses me about how people want to demonize sugar as the devil... I don't drink soft drinks regularly (I might have 1 or 2 a year and those more often than not will be diet drinks), I don't drink sweet tea and I rarely eat dessert - yet I was obese! Where's all that sugar that made me fat?!?!?!?
I also don't demonize sugar, but did you eat in restaurants? Because many restaurant meals that look like regular food contain the equivalent sugar of several candy bars (60-80 grams). Most of this is not from fruits and veggies but rather from sugar laden sauces and dressings. Even a whole day of my diet where I eat a generous amount of fruits and veggies doesn't top 40 g of sugar. So, the " hidden" or "added" sugar issue is not a hoax.
Of course, these meals also contain huge amounts of fat and salt and calories. It's no mystery on how to make food highly palatable - just add in lots of sugar and fat and salt. That's the main "secret" that chefs and food designers know.
Do you mean sugar or carbs? Because there's a difference between "normal carbs in a meal" and "80 grams of added sugar". And as a type 1 diabetic who has to track all of her carbs, I can tell you from real life actually lived experience that NO, what you're saying is *not* accurate for restaurants and sugar. I would know within an *hour* if I had underjudged the carbs in a restaurant meal, or any meal, and I'm sure as heck not missing my restaurant meals by 80 grams every single time.8
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