Sugar tax threatens over 9,000 jobs in South Africa

noxibox said:
People are consuming more overall. That's the main reason for obesity. Sugary drinks were common in the past, decades back, and they were very sweet. White bread with jam was a typical school lunch. Yet much less obesity. Ready made packaged meals might be loaded with sugar and the sugar levels might even be increasing, but

Then there is the whole anti-seed oil cult. Like being anti-grain it seems to have been initiated by the paleo diet cult. Maybe some science will eventually come along to vindicate it, but so far it just another dietary fad that makes some people a lot of money.
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Jams are sickly sweet now.
 
wingnut771 said:
People are consuming more, or manufacturers just adding more in the ingredients?
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People are consuming more, substantially more. It doesn't matter how much manufacturers add. In developed countries there is a glut of food.
 
Polymathic said:
Jams are sickly sweet now.
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They were loaded with sugar when I was a child many decades ago. Jams just are full of sugar since it is a key ingredient in making it. Neither can an adult compare how something tastes to them today to what they think it tasted like when they were a child.
 
noxibox said:
They were loaded with sugar when I was a child many decades ago. Jams just are full of sugar since it is a key ingredient in making it. Neither can an adult compare how something tastes to them today to what they think it tasted like when they were a child.
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Are you 18 now?

The bottled more expensive jams now taste like how the cheap canned jam tasted in terms of sweetness and BTW this happened within the last 5 years.

The imported jam from Denmark still taste the same but the South African bottled jams have become so sweet its inedible for me.
 
Burn the 53,800 hectares of cane down and plant pineapples instead
9000 happy workers

FFS, I don't even have Matric and I could run this country better than Cyril
 
Country is full of porkers.... We eat crap, do t do any exercise and then wonder why we get fat...

data.worldobesity.org

South Africa

data.worldobesity.org
 
Carbs is much more of a problem in SA. The majority of SA is carb intolerant, yet bad carbs is almost all they eat/can afford. Sugar consumption is a molehill next to the problem of carb eating by carb intolerable people.
 
Why don't we convert cane sugar to fuel. Then use bagass for electricity?
 
Just to give an idea, in a typical homemade jam recipe sucrose constitutes 40-50% of the ingredients. The total sugar can be even higher because the fruit contains sugar as well. Manufacturers don't have to do anything to tweak a jam recipe because, like honey, jam is essentially sugar and water. It doesn't even seem likely that low sugar jams were common, because sugar is an integral component of the process of making jam. Just like it is in fudge or toffee.

wingnut771 said:
Is it not because there are more people?
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In the sense that more consumers makes the market for cheap food bigger and more profitable that might have driven increased supply. Whatever the reason food became relatively more abundant and people have been consuming steadily more calories. It also tended to become steadily relatively cheaper over the second half of the 20th century.
 
The anti sugar gang was giving me stick on Instagram yesterday on my views. What an interesting bunch.
 
Polymathic said:
The bottled more expensive jams now taste like how the cheap canned jam tasted in terms of sweetness and BTW this happened within the last 5 years.

The imported jam from Denmark still taste the same but the South African bottled jams have become so sweet its inedible for me.
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Sounds like a placebo effect. Can we see the relative sugar content of these jams, so we can compare then and now? I hear lots of stories about the alleged lower sugar content in some past golden age, but no figures to demonstrate it isn't merely perception.
 
noxibox said:
Sounds like a placebo effect. Can we see the relative sugar content of these jams, so we can compare then and now? I hear lots of stories about the alleged lower sugar content in some past golden age, but no figures to demonstrate it isn't merely perception.
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I literally have the control of the imported jam which hasn't increased in it's sweetness over the years whereas the local jams have all become sweeter, relative to that one.
 
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