[NUTRITION] - Corn Syrup is here. GROSS (watch out Coke, your time is coming)

[rinners]

For those of you who don't know almost everything in the USA is sweetened with corn syrup, including... sweets and Coca Cola! I have spoken to a lot of Americans who have loved the taste of our versions of Coke and other sweets. I guess the sugar tax is to blame, and greedy big companies like Tiger Brands.

This morning I opened a 500g (10x 50g) box of Apple and Cinnamon flavoured Oatso Easy only to find that there were only 9 sachets and one of the 9 had been improperly sealed and spilled out all over the box.

I ended up tossing the first bowl out because it had a really awful sickeningly sweet, off-taste to it. Then I tried the chocolate and had the same. I realized after looking at the ingredients that this product (I will no longer refer to it as food, as it is no longer fit for nutrition, only consumption) has been changed, obviously to reduce costs and maintain or increase profits. I will no longer be buying this or anything made with corn syrup instead of real good old fashioned sugar. I guess it's time to get pure oats and start making my own. At least the previous unhealthy recipe had taste going for it.

What a terrible start to the day, but hey at least I only have 9 sackets of this awful stuff to get rid of I guess.

 

[Areola Grande]

Yep, corn-syrup flavoured items aren't nearly as good as sugar-based.

When I lived in the US I'd always go to the little mexican stores, they got their Coke from Mexico and it had sugar, not corn-syrup.

 

[pɐlΛ‾pɐq‾ƃᴉq]

Oats'o easy is garbage anyway. Much better off spending 5 minutes extra and making the real stuff.

They have been using HFCS for almost everything in the US for many years now and it's actually much worse for you than normal sugar. at least you get the green cans of coke with cane sugar.

 

[rinners]

Oats'o easy is garbage anyway. Much better off spending 5 minutes extra and making the real stuff.

Will have to. I nearly threw up.

Here are some ideas, courtesy of my sister in law.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/1829656086178417/

 

[goldfritter]

I guess the sugar tax is to blame

At the risk of being annoying, the sugar tax A) currently only applies to soft drinks, and B) includes HFCS as a nutritive sweetener, so it is taxed the same way as sugar. So in this case I think we are blaming only the greedy company.

The sugar tax is working. Now double it – Bhekisisa

While the world focuses its attention on COVID-19, there is another illness draining the health system’s resources – diabetes. The cost of diabetes-related blindness and kidney failures is being overlooked too, these health advocates say.

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Will have to. I nearly threw up.

Here are some ideas, courtesy of my sister in law.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/1829656086178417/

A game-changer is overnight oats, where you set up the oats the night before and let them soak in the fridge overnight, then you just take them out and eat the next morning (with or without a trip to the microwave to heat them up, depending on what you prefer). Then you don't have to cook them in the morning when you are rushing. And obviously you can add all kinds of nice things.

If you Google "overnight oats" you'll get lots of great recipes, but for me peanut butter, honey, and cocoa powder is the killer combo.

 

[Valheru]

Will have to. I nearly threw up.

Here are some ideas, courtesy of my sister in law.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/1829656086178417/

To quote Jeremy Clarkson: A bowl of sick

 

[ThatGuyJD]

At the risk of being annoying, the sugar tax A) currently only applies to soft drinks, and B) includes HFCS as a nutritive sweetener, so it is taxed the same way as sugar. So in this case I think we are blaming only the greedy company.

The sugar tax is working. Now double it – Bhekisisa

While the world focuses its attention on COVID-19, there is another illness draining the health system’s resources – diabetes. The cost of diabetes-related blindness and kidney failures is being overlooked too, these health advocates say.

bhekisisa.org

A game-changer is overnight oats, where you set up the oats the night before and let them soak in the fridge overnight, then you just take them out and eat the next morning (with or without a trip to the microwave to heat them up, depending on what you prefer). Then you don't have to cook them in the morning when you are rushing. And obviously you can add all kinds of nice things.

If you Google "overnight oats" you'll get lots of great recipes, but for me peanut butter, honey, and cocoa powder is the killer combo.

Don't know about overnight oats but I always just used to throw some "steel cut oats" (that we'd buy for comparatively cheaper at the bakers shop) in a bowl with some water the night before and let it soak, next morning quick run in the microwave with some stirring and watching that it didn't boil over. Add milk when it comes out to cool it off and then chow it.