The Truth: How Sweet It Is
In general, food producers have a bad habit of sugar coating the truth in order to divert attention away from serious health concerns, when reactions to those concerns would negatively affect their business profits. The food industry can continue to monopolize on the consumption of their perfectly engineered, poisonous products, if consumers remain unaware and ignorant of harmful ingredients and potential subsequent health risks thereof. So what is the truth that the food industry goes to such great lengths to cook up pre-packaged defenses of, garnish with sweet little lies, and wrap neatly with hollow-promise packaging? The truth is they are poisoning our food supply. “Sugar is poison. It is a chronic… liver toxin,”
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Now consider the added sugars in a typical peanut butter and jelly sandwich. According to their labels: Nature’s Own 100% Whole Wheat Bread has less than 1 gram in one slice (Hint: Without knowing how much less, rounding up is going to be the safest bet,) Jiff Creamy Peanut Butter has three grams in two tablespoons, and Welch’s Concord Grape Jelly has 13 grams in one tablespoon. Does it sound like fun to try to do all that math and conversion? If only one tablespoon of peanut butter is used, one peanut butter and jelly sandwich has over four teaspoons of added sugar, in addition to however much sugar the grains, fruits, and peanuts contain naturally. Look at some other typical snack options: Nutella contains 21 grams in two tablespoons (That is over five teaspoons of sugar,) Snack Pack Vanilla Pudding has 12 grams in one pudding cup (Three teaspoons of sugar,) Double Stuf Oreo’s have 20 grams in three cookies. Surprisingly and unexpectedly, other places to find added sugar include macaroni and cheese, condiments, canned vegetables, milk, bagged salad, pasta sauce, salad dressing, popcorn, and even beef jerky. Nearly every product we consider non-sweet, does in fact have added