SC - American sugar consumption

[Elaine Koogler]

Christine Seelye-King wrote:
> 
> > 125 pounds of sugar, PER PERSON, per year?????  Hell,
> > that would be 500 pounds of sugar used in my house
> > ALONE!  Not bloody likely, to be sure!  Maybe the
> > folks who put these stats together only interviewed
> > sugar junkies....
 
>         Well, as you cook professionally, you probably don't eat as much
> pre-prepared food as most Americans, but you still get more sugar in than
> you think, I'll bet.  We aren't just talking about granulated table sugar
> here, but all the little insidious places they sneak sugar into processed
> foods without our knowing or caring.  Sugar can be used as a preservative,
> flavor enhancer, etc. in products that we don't even think of being sweet.
> High fructose corn syrup is in so many products, I'll bet even in the most
> organic of kitchens, at least half a dozen boxes of prepared foods can be
> found with substantial sugars in them.  As for the stats on artificial
> sweeteners, however, I can safely say that somebody is eating my share, I
> stay far away from Nutrasweet and most other saccharine/cyclamate/sucralose
> stuff.

At the risk of a 'me too' post... there's an awful lot of sugars hidden
in our foods. There's even sugar in most salad dressings, in ketchup,
and there's sugar in that gawdawful white sludge that some people use
instead of the canonical mayo (Heh heh ;-). There's even sugar in your
can of tomato soup. Unless you're eating your food fresh off the farm,
naked, you're likely to be getting sugar.

And someone is eating my share of Nutrasweet too- it gives me migraines.
But someone else is getting my share of alot of things, come to think of
it... ;-D

'Lainie