Those who take in the ball games at Greenfield Village in the summer, may have noticed that the expen$ive Faygo pop sold at the games is sweetened with cane sugar. Faygo is a regional brand, so it’s consumption of cane sugar, instead of HFCS, probably doesn’t even register in corn farmer’s consciousness.
Coke however, is not a little, regional, brand. For some reason, “himself” has made an issue of using cane sugar, and Coke has announced it will comply. Only 2.8% of US corn goes into HFCS, but I would suspect the farmers, and processors, like ADM, want every dollar of sweetener business.
What would get the farmers riled up even more would be if “big oil” won out and the fuel ethanol mandate was repealed. Ethanol consumes 40% of the US corn crop.
When I was at the pump seal company, ADM and Corn Sweeteners, were big customers.
btw, baseball at the Village is played to 1867 rules, while spectators sit on a grassy hillside, under the shade of walnut trees, with a brass band playing between innings.
Steve, Coke is adding cane sugar coke, not getting rid of regular Coke. If the cane sugar version proves more popular, so be it. There has been a niche market for it in southern California for decades.
Not really. They’ll continue to sell the namesake brand with corn sugar, and roll out a “new” drink that uses cane sugar - presumably at a higher price (since cane sugar costs 3x the price, and the lower sales will increase production and distribution costs).
For the record, they already produce a cane sugar variety for use in areas with high Mexican populations - and for Kosher holidays. They may even launch an actually new “new product” but this is for appeasement of the orange idiot, not the real world.
But wouldn’t it be funny if they labeled it “Orange Coke”?
Yes, but they may want to name it something for the “masses” (e.g. approximately 30% of the US voting population) who may not appreciate the term Mexican Coke. “Gulf of America Coke” maybe?
It will be interesting to see what happens, when people have a choice of cane sugar or FHCS. I know this much, the cane sugar Faygo at the ball games tastes pretty good.
Glucose, sucrose, fructose, maltose, dextrose, and starches are all sugars and harmful poison when consumed in excess. Nature never made high fructose corn syrup. It’s a lab produced chemical the body has no defense against.
Food has to be palatable. Fat is palatable and when it was banned from ordinary diet it had to be replaced by something else to keep so called food palatable. The solution was a combination of salt and sugars… and obesity… and T2D… and a long tail of related maladies that led to unaffordable healthcare!
Low-fat diets gained popularity in the late 20th century, primarily driven by concerns about heart disease and weight gain. The idea that dietary fat, particularly saturated fat, directly causes heart disease and obesity became prevalent, leading to widespread recommendations to reduce fat intake. This led to a surge in low-fat and fat-free food products, but also contributed to increased consumption of carbohydrates, including refined sugars. While initially embraced, the long-term effectiveness and health implications of low-fat diets have been debated and reevaluated over time.
This article examines how faith in science led physicians and patients to embrace the low-fat diet for heart disease prevention and weight loss. Scientific studies dating from the late 1940s showed a correlation between high-fat diets and high-cholesterol levels, suggesting that a low-fat diet might prevent heart disease in high-risk patients. By the 1960s, the low-fat diet began to be touted not just for high-risk heart patients, but as good for the whole nation. After 1980, the low-fat approach became an overarching ideology, promoted by physicians, the federal government, the food industry, and the popular health media.
Surely you can find a tutorial on using Google to find things out.
To effectively use Google to find things, start with simple searches using keywords or phrases that accurately describe what you’re looking for.Refine your search using specific terms, and consider using quotation marks for exact phrase matches. Google also offers advanced search features and operators to narrow down results by date, type of content, or specific websites.
This video provides a beginner’s guide to using Google Search and its basic features:
So, in fact fat was not banned (a word with a very specific meaning) from the ordinary diet.
The thing about using Google to find things out using keywords or phrases to accurately describe what you’re looking for is that this refined search can lead to the sort of cherry picked data that leaves you believing the wrong things … especially when it’s what you want to believe in the first place
So one hint to avoid the AI Google Bamboozle…look beyond the first hits you get in your refined search. Or, maybe at least look at the background of the author(s) of the article you’re citing. A F La Berge, in this case …who, at time of writing doesn’t appear to have any particular background in cardiovascular physiology or lipidology etc. And, for all we know, might well have done a lit search with a similarly narrow focus and glommed onto similarly cherry picked data.
