Comment on Ozempic Threatens Profits at Food and Beverage Makers Worldwide

• squiblet@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • StorminNorman@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Intrepid reader… scroll down.

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