Eli5: if sugar found in natural fruits doesnt get absorbed quickly by bloodstream due to fiber, then why not companies incorporate fiber to their chocolate so it doesnt spike our blood sugar?
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Because that would make them taste weird, and it wouldn’t solve the actual problem which is chocolate and candy have far too much sugar in them.
Adding fiber to a lot of candy, soda, or chocolate wouldn’t make them much healthier. That skirts around the core issue that such products have too much sugar in them to begin with and are inherently unhealthy.
It’s not a question of working around the problem, the problem is we eat too much sugar and we need to stop doing that.
Fruit juice in some ways can be just as bad as soda because they contain concentrated sugar. Their association with health and the vitamins they contain is actually the result of clever marketing.
Albert Lasker was a marketing genius responsible for changing the American diet for the worse. The amount of damage he did to the average Americans health with his marketing campaigns is rather astonishing.
Orange Juice was created as an excuse to process excess and unsellable oranges and Lasker found a way to market it as a healthy breakfast drink when it really wasn’t…
The answer isn’t to make Orange Juice healthier, it’s to drink less of it or stop drinking it entirely.
The same goes with candy and chocolate.
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