There’s something fishy going on, or should I say, something fruity? Fruit sold in grocery stores, like almost everything else in the Western diet, is becoming sweeter and sweeter. Think I’m crazy? When’s the last time you ate an apple? They’re practically as teeth-rotting as cotton candy now.
Great news for you if your idea of a Breakfast of Champions is Lucky Charms with chocolate milk, but for the rest of us, it’s just another battleground for the Obesity Epidemic. As we love to do here at Area51, we invite you to follow the money trail. Who benefits from fruits with an astronomically high level of (supposedly) naturally-occuring sugar? Certainly not the person consuming the wax-wrapped fructose bombs.
Let’s ask the grocers:
But even fruit and vegetables on sale in the UK are sweeter now than they used to be, with supermarkets selecting sweeter products because they are more attractive to reluctant fruit and vegetable eaters. [Courtesy Daily Mail, UK]
Oh, sure, we can lay blame back at the hopelessly gout-ridden feet of the consumers, but we should point our fat fingers of blame at the sugar-peddling lardmongers in the grocery industry. And whose fat fingers are they wrapped around? I leave that to your imagination.
A final thought:
An article in the British Medical Journal in 2005 claimed: ‘Sugar is as dangerous as tobacco and, in terms of world health, far more important.
Maybe it’s time to rethink that chemical-laden, artificially-colored, wax-wrapped fruit or vegetable and just reach for a friggin’ Twinkie instead. At least it’s more honest.
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