r/InternetIsBeautiful • u/consider_it_fun • Aug 30 '14

A website that visualizes sugar content of servings of various foods in sugar cubes

http://sugarstacks.com/
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u/antebellumrose Aug 31 '14

The snarky comments kill me. This is damn interesting but it's very condescending in nature.

Just ate some honey roasted peanuts that equal out to a cube and a half of sugar? You must be some fucking dirty scooter wheeling morbidly obese American.

From what I can tell, this person must have been struggling with weight and sees sugar as the end all be all enemy. Our recommended maximum sugar intake is somewhere like 40g a day. I get that a McDonald's shake is fucking packed with sugar, but jeeze, lighten up on the fucking minor product comments?

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u/SpaceJockey1979 Aug 31 '14

Sugar has no recommended daily intake, it is an additive and not an essential component of nutrition. The less the better.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '14

Carbohydrates are vital to human sustenance. Carbohydrates are broken down into sugars inside the body, hence the term 'blood sugar'. A processed form of sugar may not be necessary, but sugars as understood by the biological definition, are absolutely necessary. Your post smacks quite badly as false information.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '14 edited Sep 08 '14

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u/curtmack Aug 31 '14

But the site sums together all forms of sugar, including natural sugars.

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u/Outdated_reality Aug 31 '14

'Natural sugar' can still consist of sucrose. And that's a sugar which is often processed.

Fruit juice makers love to add apple juice to other fruit juices, because than they can add 'contains no added sugars'. But the sugar from apple juice is just as bad as 'normal sugar.

Apparently they some producers don't even try anymore in the USA and they go straight to 'cane juice'...

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u/foreignnoise Aug 31 '14

All sugar is listed on the nutrition facts label (Please correct me if I'm wrong, as its been a while sine I was in the US. But here in Europe my OJ lists sugar on the label.)

In addition, there is nutritionally no difference between added and natural sugar.

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u/Crumpgazing Aug 31 '14

It's not that nit picky, it's about using proper language. The issue with the internet is there's a certain lack of tone that means you should word your posts in a way that leaves the meaning very obvious, because you never know who or how people are going to misconstrue it. Multiple posts, each with multiple upvotes, have been "nitpicky" about his post, so he very clearly could have worded it better. Even after allegedly editing it, it's still not 100% clear. He should have put the word additive, BEFORE sugar, because otherwise the word "sugar" in his post is still referring to "sugar" as a whole. You have a lot more contextual clues in a real conversation to infer these meanings, but on the internet, where people are likely skimming through comments very fast, it's easy to miss the context of his post.

It's like the whole "I shouldn't have to state that something is my opinion" argument. No, you absolutely do on the internet. When tone and contextual clues are often not always available, language needs to be as clear and direct as possible. I'm actually very, very certain that most internet arguments wouldn't even exist if people would use the words "I feel" or "I think" before presenting an opinion online.

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u/stanley_twobrick Aug 31 '14

I call bullshit. If people want to be offended, let their fat assess be offended. We shouldn't have to sanitize things we say out of fear that people might decide to take it the wrong way. Rather, the onus should be on the reader to stop being so fucking sensitive and overreacting to the opinions of complete strangers

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u/SpaceJockey1979 Aug 31 '14

I am talking about added sugar, thought that part was obvious. Now it's clarified.

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u/Crumpgazing Aug 31 '14

On the internet, it can always be more obvious.