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Ozempic Threatens Profits at Food and Beverage Makers Worldwide
(www.bloomberg.com)
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Fruit has fiber, antioxidants, vitamins and no fat or cholesterol. To me the fixation on sugar is misguided - vegetable starches are exactly the same thing. A potato is basically 25% sugar for example since potato starch is simply a chain of glucose molecules.
You’re right, and I probably should have provided some context. Between breeding for sugar and longevity and soil depletion removing those fun, tasty minerals people always go on about, fruit in the future may end up being genetically engineered candy. I dread the day that heirloom fruits become the only way I can enjoy an apple.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/fruits-and-vegetables-are-less-nutritious-than-they-used-to-be
Ah, I see. You mean fruit is actually changing in terms of nutrition.
We’ve done well with apples over the past 30 years in terms of variety, at least - it used to be basically all that was available was red delicious and Granny Smith. These days just about any supermarket has a dozen different kinds of apples.
While it's not only sugar, people who have to cut it out for medical reasons, or anyone doing keto isn't going to be eating potatoes for that reason.
It's carbs. Carbs is the problem, it's just that most of them come from sugar, and for anyone not currently spiraling towards diabetes, you could probably only cut sugar out of your diet and see some beneficial changes to your health.
You know, as long as you don't replace them with vegetables that happen to be mostly sugar.
Sure, I understand that. It was essentially my point. I see people joking or making comments about excessively sugary treats “ha ha this will give you diabetes” but I don’t see people say that about say, a bag of potato chips or a plate of bread, though they have as many carbs. Vegetable starch even is turned into blood glucose faster than sucrose.