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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 44 points 1 week ago (3 children)

THEN WHY DO YOU PUT IT ON EVERYTHING

[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 1 week ago (2 children)

that's the fun part, it's been snuck into all of our foods that oftentimes we have little choice.

You can either cook all of your meals from scratch, or deal with high fructose corn syrup. That's livin in America.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Its even in a lot of our "ingredients" for example... Most Americans aren't making spaghetti sauce from scratch. So when it's pasta ragu night your getting an extra helping of sugar from the sauce. Most European ketchups are nearly inedible to an American palate.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 2 points 1 week ago

They taste great to most Americans, the sugar is mostly in there to cover up low quality ingredients

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

Spaghetti sauce is just tomatoes and spices. It gets ready by the time the spaghetti are cooked

[–] figjam@midwest.social 4 points 1 week ago

Because we have to keep the price of corn high. Duh.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 17 points 1 week ago

Corporate decided it was more profitable.

[–] EightBitBlood@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

That would be our corporate overlords wanting to keep corn farmers employed. It's not like we have bottles of it at our table. Companies just put it in everything since it's cheap, and since we don't have an effective government that stops capitalism from killing us, it gets put in everything and we die from heart disease.