Sugar Tax

wotsthat

antrobus wrote: »

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.

Well there's processed and there's processed.

I could eat a piece of fish with some roasted/ baked vegetables (potato, sweet potato, cougette, onion and tomatoes) or eat the version the food marketeers would prefer I eat. A piece if breaded fish/ some swede & potato mash / and some potato wedges.

I'll consume more fat, salt and sugar that way and generate more packaging waste too. I prefer the former - it tastes nicer, is more satiating, and lower calorie - even the peelings get composted.

IMO much of the food industry falls squarely into the persuading people to work a job they hate so they can buy crap they don't need (or really want) category.

mwpt

antrobus wrote: »

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.

I don't think that's quite what processed means in the context you're speaking about.

antrobus

mwpt wrote: »

I don't think that's quite what processed means in the context you're speaking about.

You're no bl00dy fun at all.:)

antrobus

Mistermeaner wrote: »

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

Depends on the pasta sauce. A tomato based based pasta sauce is bound to have some veg in it.

P.S. Anyone who gets all QI on me and starts claiming that a tomato is a fruit and not a vegetable is going to get a visit from me and my Glock.

Mistermeaner wrote: »

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

That's the thing, I believe. Even with stuff like fruit, the human body apparently metabolises the sugars in juices in a different manner than the same sugars in solid fruit. Apparently.

GunJack

Generali wrote: »

- High fibre cereal (in Aus there is more sugar in Bran Flakes and most mueslis than in Coco Pops!)!

Sadly, before embarking on a crash diet, I spent over half an hour one day in Tescos, checking the nutritional values of all the cereals....

Overall, the best one was tesco value museli, with less than 5g of fat and around 7g of sugars per 100gms. One of the lowest porridges I found is Lidl's Simply at 7g fat and 0.7g sugars....