McDonald’s oatmeal contains more sugar than a Snickers bar

[Mortis]

I didn't know that, interesting. That could be an issue here in Asia.

A little googling turns up this (original text here)

"The taste of a french fry is largely determined by the cooking oil. For decades McDonald's cooked its french fries in a mixture of about seven percent cottonseed oil and 93 percent beef tallow. The mixture gave the fries their unique flavor -- and more saturated beef fat per ounce than a McDonald's hamburger.

In 1990, amid a barrage of criticism over the amount of cholesterol in its fries, McDonald's switched to pure vegetable oil. This presented the company with a challenge: how to make fries that subtly taste like beef without cooking them in beef tallow. A look at the ingredients in McDonald's french fries suggests how the problem was solved. Toward the end of the list is a seemingly innocuous yet oddly mysterious phrase: "natural flavor." That ingredient helps to explain not only why the fries taste so good but also why most fast food -- indeed, most of the food Americans eat today -- tastes the way it does."

Thanks for bringing that up, I like McDonalds a few times a year, especially the fries.

[markbot]

Originally Posted by RockdaMan

Anyone got an answer? I don't.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com...oatmeal-wrong/

the amount of sugar they put in yogurt in the US is ridiculous. it's like eating candy.

[kindlekitten]

Originally Posted by markbot

the amount of sugar they put in yogurt in the US is ridiculous. it's like eating candy.

the amount of sugar (and high fructose corn syrup, and all the imitation sweetners) that they put into 95% of our food is ridiculous. I cannot/will not eat most of the pre-prepared foods. it is no wonder that diabetes and obesity is so rampant in this country

[The Terminator]

I know we went to Seatle Washington and there were allot more over weight people in the states

[Cyberman tM]

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

the amount of sugar (and high fructose corn syrup, and all the imitation sweetners) that they put into 95% of our food is ridiculous. I cannot/will not eat most of the pre-prepared foods. it is no wonder that diabetes and obesity is so rampant in this country

Rest assured, it will only get worse :-(

It's similar here, though I think not quite as bad as in america. We're on our way, though.

I've once seen a documentation stating that even baby food contains too much sugar.
Not, as some conspiracy theorists might think, because they want to train us all on sugar, but because (too) many parents (themselves adjusted to very sweet tastes) would try the food before feeding it, and would otherwise decide it's not good because it doesn't taste sweet enough...

The only way out now, IMO, is unfortunately not reducing sugar (next to impossible), but replacing it. Artificial sweeteners or newly found plants or whatever.

Of course, that will still alter the taste and lots of people will harp about how bad all those artificial sweeteners are, even if they don't even know what they're talking about.
(Fun fact: there are several completely different groups of sweeteners. How come "a study claimed that sweeteners cause hunger" can be taken serious if the actual stuff isn't even mentioned in this statement? It's not as if, for example, Xylitol or Isomalt behaves the same way Saccharin or Aspartame does. The only thing in common is that they taste sweet.)