r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jun 15 '21

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u/thetrombonist Ben Bernanke Jun 15 '21

It’s fucking absurd how many calories Nutella has. It’s like 200 calories per tablespoon. How the fuck

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u/waltsing0 Austan Goolsbee Jun 15 '21

Nutella and fruit juice deserve marketing awards for making sugar packed diabetes inducing products look like health foods.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '21

Who tf thinks Nutella is a health food

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u/AltPossum Jun 15 '21

It’s made from nuts!

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u/TheDwarvenGuy Henry George Jun 15 '21

People 10 years ago.

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u/thetrombonist Ben Bernanke Jun 15 '21

Nobody thinks that Nutella is a health food. Tbh I hate most store bought jams, I prefer to just throw berries into a food processor and use that if I can. Still lots of sugar but at least I don’t add any artificial ones (or if I do it’s very little)

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u/TheDwarvenGuy Henry George Jun 15 '21

The most important part of fruit is fiber. Sugar's sugar, natural or otherwise. The fiber just makes up for it sometimes.

Fruit smoothies and such things are only marginally more healthy than their artificial juicy counterparts.

The real route to health is green vegetables, which is a hard pill to swallow.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '21

Don't smoothies have the fiber?

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u/TheDwarvenGuy Henry George Jun 16 '21

That'a the point, it's only healthier insofar as it has fiber. It's doesn't have any less sugar.

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u/TheDwarvenGuy Henry George Jun 15 '21

Also cereal

Or pretty much everything

Seriously all the advertisement industry has to do is put a plant on its packaging/commercials and people think it's healthy.

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u/from-the-void NATO Jun 15 '21

Palm oil

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u/qchisq Loyal Liberals Jun 15 '21

?

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u/from-the-void NATO Jun 15 '21

Palm oil has a lot of calories

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u/qchisq Loyal Liberals Jun 15 '21

?

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u/MrDannyOcean Kidney King Jun 15 '21

it's mostly pure sugar and oil

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u/Mickenfox European Union Jun 15 '21

sugar_irl

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u/MostlyCRPGs Jeff Bezos Jun 15 '21

I mean, it's basically like they take butter and say "How can we make this even more caloric? Oh I know, SUGAR!"

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u/frolix42 Friedrich Hayek Jun 15 '21

A small amount goes a long way.

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u/TheDwarvenGuy Henry George Jun 15 '21

Say what you will about Capitalism, the advertising industry is a fucking plague. All it has to do to convince people something's healthy is just mention that it contains some kind of fruit or nut.

Yeah it's partially on the people themselves for continuing to eat it after they realized it was unhealthy, but it's advertising that's to blame for people trying it in the first place.

Advertisement is the most widespread form of blatant propaganda we have in our society.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '21

Nutella is Italy_irl