Sugar Tax

antrobus

mwpt wrote: »

Ouch!

Make your own smoothies like I do.

I'm not convinced that would make a difference. You don't have to add sugar to get a high sugar content smoothie - you get the sugar content from the fruit. Orange juice has the same sugar content as full fat Coke, apple juice is a bit more. Other fruits are available.

mwpt

antrobus wrote: »

I'm not convinced that would make a difference. You don't have to add sugar to get a high sugar content smoothie - you get the sugar content from the fruit. Orange juice has the same sugar content as full fat Coke, apple juice is a bit more. Other fruits are available.

Well, I can tell you it does make a difference because you control what goes in. I posted my recipe previously. It contains 26g of sugars, some of which are lactose some fructose. I ingest this over the course of the morning, not all in one.

N1AK

antrobus wrote: »

I'm not convinced that would make a difference. You don't have to add sugar to get a high sugar content smoothie - you get the sugar content from the fruit. Orange juice has the same sugar content as full fat Coke, apple juice is a bit more. Other fruits are available.

It wouldn't be a very good smoothie if all you added was fruit juice though you might as well warn that vegetables can be high in sugar if you coat them in honey before eating them

antrobus

N1AK wrote: »

It wouldn't be a very good smoothie if all you added was fruit juice though you might as well warn that vegetables can be high in sugar if you coat them in honey before eating them

I'm aware that you can put lots of different things in a smoothie, but nevertheless there is a lot of sugar in fruit smoothies. Some peeople think it's "unacceptably high". And I remain unconvinced that if you tried to recreate your own Naked Green Machine Apple Banana Kiwi Smoothie at home that you'd end up with anything with that much less sugar in it.

The thing is, these days, the sugars in fruit juice are defined as 'free sugars' and regarded in exactly the same light as the sugars in full fat Coke and the like - "fruit should be consumed in its whole form, not as juice" is the advice.

I know some people won't like me saying that. But I can't help that. That's what these nutritionist type 'experts' are saying these days.

Generali

michaels wrote: »

Hmm - just looked at the sugar content of the naked smoothie in my £1 boots/o2 lunch - 54g in one 450ml drink.

Some things to check for sugar content next time you're in the supermarket:

- High fibre cereal (in Aus there is more sugar in Bran Flakes and most mueslis than in Coco Pops!)
- Low fat yogurt (Yoplait low fat vanilla yogurt has 24.3g of sugar per serving)
- Sugar (sugar has almost 100g of sugar per 100g)
- Vitaminwater (15g sugar per 500g bottle)
- Pasta sauce (a jar of basic Dolmio bolognaise sauce has 13g sugar)
- Stir fry sauce (Blue Dragon sweet n sour is ~26g sugar for 120g pouch)

If sugar is as bad as it seems it might be, the contents of our food is horrifying!

wotsthat

Funny really - who makes a pasta sauce at home and adds sugar?

When fat was the big evil and removed from foods to make them 'healthier' sugar and salt were increased to maintain palatability. How has that worked out?

Maybe there should be a processed food tax rather than demonising one food group at a time.

wotsthat

Perhaps we should only eat protein. Mo Farah is the face of Quorn (a 'healthy' protein - 'training, protein, training, protein). He's an odd choice to push protein given he probably derives north of 85% of his calories from carbohydrate.

antrobus

wotsthat wrote: »

Funny really - who makes a pasta sauce at home and adds sugar?...

Err, I do. (Is that wicked?)

Although actually, there are quite a few pasta sauce recipes out there that include muscovado sugar.

wotsthat wrote: »

...When fat was the big evil and removed from foods to make them 'healthier' sugar and salt were increased to maintain palatability. How has that worked out?...

Or trans fats? One generation of food campaigners fights for the use of them because they don't cause CV issues, another generation argues against them because they do.

wotsthat wrote: »

..Maybe there should be a processed food tax rather than demonising one food group at a time.

On the basis that all food gets processes in some way, would that make a difference? I any event, I find it comical that some people rail against the evils of proceesed food, and then go home, and chuck everything in a food processor, and whizz it all into a mush.

antrobus

wotsthat wrote: »

Perhaps we should only eat protein. Mo Farah is the face of Quorn (a 'healthy' protein - 'training, protein, training, protein). He's an odd choice to push protein given he probably derives north of 85% of his calories from carbohydrate.

Quorn is grown in vats. It's a bit too Soylent Green for my tastes.

P.S. Didn't Farah have to withdraw from the Commonwealth Games because of stomach pains? Well, if you will eat that muck .....

Mistermeaner

At least with sugar in food there is other good stuff going down the hatch too (some veg in the pasta sauce) I hope

Thing with sugary drinks is thst they have little other nutritional value they are just equivalent to sugar and water.