Comment on Ozempic Threatens Profits at Food and Beverage Makers Worldwide

kersploosh@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• gullible@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  2055: fruit is a gateway food to such vices as cookies and pie.

  I’m only half serious, but fruit is trending toward being as unhealthy as other snack foods.

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  • squiblet@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Fruit has fiber, antioxidants, vitamins and no fat or cholesterol. To me the fixation on sugar is misguided - vegetable starches are exactly the same thing. A potato is basically 25% sugar for example since potato starch is simply a chain of glucose molecules.

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    • gullible@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You’re right, and I probably should have provided some context. Between breeding for sugar and longevity and soil depletion removing those fun, tasty minerals people always go on about, fruit in the future may end up being genetically engineered candy. I dread the day that heirloom fruits become the only way I can enjoy an apple.

      https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/fruits-and-vegetables-are-less-nutritious-than-they-used-to-be

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      • squiblet@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Ah, I see. You mean fruit is actually changing in terms of nutrition.

        We’ve done well with apples over the past 30 years in terms of variety, at least - it used to be basically all that was available was red delicious and Granny Smith. These days just about any supermarket has a dozen different kinds of apples.

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  • cmbabul@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Some of them have vitamins and other nutrients but as far as sugar goes you’re spot on

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  • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    …what? Are you saying fruit is somehow becoming less healthy?

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    • StorminNorman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yep. Read an article not that long ago about zoos having to cut back on the fruit they give their animals as our fruit has way more sugar than what is found in the wild.

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    • gullible@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Intrepid reader… scroll down.

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• hperrin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  But what will I do on my Oreos and Mountain Dew break?

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  • Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I tell my boss I eat Oreos and mountain dew just to get that extra 15 minute break, but honestly I just sit there

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