{"id":43349,"date":"2014-07-03T13:05:58","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T19:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/03\/sugar-is-sweet-and-so-is-food.html"},"modified":"2014-07-09T20:51:04","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T02:51:04","slug":"sugar-is-sweet-and-so-is-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/03\/sugar-is-sweet-and-so-is-food.html","title":{"rendered":"Sugar Is Sweet and So Is Food"},"content":{"rendered":"
So I generally like the proposed FDA nutrition label — clarifying serving size and calories per is helpful.<\/p>\n

"Added sugar" is an interesting one. On the one hand, anything that makes big industry groups howl with pain over added transparency is probably worth it just for that reason alone. \u00a0It is a bit odd\u00a0insofar as it's something the manufacturer has to report on, vs. something that can be deduced through chemical testing — but, yeah, that's still doable. And, honestly, I think it would be a good thing to let folks know — just as letting them know about trans fat was useful.<\/p>\n

(And, no, it's not a "Nanny State" thing — quite the opposite. It's an "informing the public and letting them make their own decisions" kind of thing.)\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n

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The crucial FDA nutrition label battle you probably don\u2019t know about, but should<\/a>
\n There’s sugar in just about everything today, and the vast majority of it is added during food production. Shouldn’t consumers know how much is in what they buy?\n <\/p>\n

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So I generally like the proposed FDA nutrition label — clarifying serving size and calories per is helpful. "Added sugar" is an interesting one. On the one hand, anything that makes big industry groups howl with pain over added transparency is probably worth it just for that reason alone. \u00a0It is a bit odd\u00a0insofar as … Continue reading “Sugar Is Sweet and So Is Food”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,38,374,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-food-drink","category-money-politics","category-writing-and-language"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21271,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/14\/and-now-is-time-for-the-big-jug-o-cleansing-fun.html","url_meta":{"origin":43349,"position":0},"title":"And now is time for the Big Jug o’ Cleansing Fun!","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 14-Jun-11 6:23pm","format":false,"excerpt":"For gastrointestinal lavage! 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