PoliTalker
Diversity Makes Greatness
I like dried fruit. Dried fruit is a part of my diet.
I do not like "Added Sugars."
If you look on the contents you will find that a lot of dried fruit has "Added Sugars."
Cranberries, blueberries, raisins, dates, cherries all have added sugars. I suppose the corporate wizards have decided they will sell more product if it has a sweeter taste. Most processed foods have added ingredients from the big three popular added ingredients: Sugar, Fat, and Salt. Corporate reasoning goes like this: Add one or more of these ingredients, in the right combinations, and you will sell more product. And these things are cheap.
I began wondering just how they add sugars to dried fruit. I couldn't imagine using a hypodermic needle to inject sugar into blueberries, no. It has to be a process that's cheap and easily done on a mass scale. I noticed that these dried fruits are a little sticky. It must be a coating that is sprayed on.
I did some searching online. I am not the only one to wonder about this. And there seems to be no consensus. I would like to see an investigative reporting expose on it.
I wondered if I could remove the added sugars.
I did an experiment in my own kitchen. (Hey, some things they just don't tell ya, so ya have to figure them out for yourself.)
I took some dried fruit with added sugars and put it in a bowl. Then I added water and waited ten minutes.
Then I tasted the water.
You guessed it. It tasted strongly like sugar.
I poured it off.
Guess what?
It looked like corn syrup. A brown mixture (yuk.)
Now that makes sense. Corn syrup is darn cheap. And not very good for you. Who buys corn syrup and cooks with it? I never heard a 100-year-old talk of doing that.
I tasted the fruit. You guessed it. Now it tasted more like raw fruit. Not so sickenly sweet any more.
Yaay!
So now I have a new process. I de-process this processed food before I eat it. It's simple.
Added sugars down the drain. I wish they would not even put them in. I can't even find these dried fruits without the added sugars. No demand for it, I guess. Dumb corporations. I can't be the only one. My waistline thanks me. I want the health benefits of fruit and it's not always possible to get a wide variety of fresh fruits. That's why dried fruit is part of my diet. Now, thanks to a bit of ingenuity, added sugars are not.
I do not like "Added Sugars."
If you look on the contents you will find that a lot of dried fruit has "Added Sugars."
Cranberries, blueberries, raisins, dates, cherries all have added sugars. I suppose the corporate wizards have decided they will sell more product if it has a sweeter taste. Most processed foods have added ingredients from the big three popular added ingredients: Sugar, Fat, and Salt. Corporate reasoning goes like this: Add one or more of these ingredients, in the right combinations, and you will sell more product. And these things are cheap.
I began wondering just how they add sugars to dried fruit. I couldn't imagine using a hypodermic needle to inject sugar into blueberries, no. It has to be a process that's cheap and easily done on a mass scale. I noticed that these dried fruits are a little sticky. It must be a coating that is sprayed on.
I did some searching online. I am not the only one to wonder about this. And there seems to be no consensus. I would like to see an investigative reporting expose on it.
I wondered if I could remove the added sugars.
I did an experiment in my own kitchen. (Hey, some things they just don't tell ya, so ya have to figure them out for yourself.)
I took some dried fruit with added sugars and put it in a bowl. Then I added water and waited ten minutes.
Then I tasted the water.
You guessed it. It tasted strongly like sugar.
I poured it off.
Guess what?
It looked like corn syrup. A brown mixture (yuk.)
Now that makes sense. Corn syrup is darn cheap. And not very good for you. Who buys corn syrup and cooks with it? I never heard a 100-year-old talk of doing that.
I tasted the fruit. You guessed it. Now it tasted more like raw fruit. Not so sickenly sweet any more.
Yaay!
So now I have a new process. I de-process this processed food before I eat it. It's simple.
Added sugars down the drain. I wish they would not even put them in. I can't even find these dried fruits without the added sugars. No demand for it, I guess. Dumb corporations. I can't be the only one. My waistline thanks me. I want the health benefits of fruit and it's not always possible to get a wide variety of fresh fruits. That's why dried fruit is part of my diet. Now, thanks to a bit of ingenuity, added sugars are not.