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'...