[elcritch]

What I really want is food with less sugar. Call it a harm reduction approach.

A gram of sugar isn’t as bad as 20g, but it’s really hard to find just less sweet products. They all use artificial sweeteners to make it as sweet tasting or more.

Why is it so hard to find a ginger ale with only 5g of sugar? Or ketchup with 1/10th the sugar? It’s easy to find low sodium products.

Speaking of low sodium, I also wish more foods would mix potassium salt in with table salt. It’s not as “salty” but still improves the flavor and balances out the lack of potassium in Western diet.

[bombcar]

I suspect food labelling laws - the term "diet" probably can't be used if it contains any sugar or whatever.

I'm seeing more "low sugar" options pop up here and there, but even then you have to ride the damn ingredients because sometimes it's "low sugar" on an item that normally has no sweetener at all, or it is being compared to some hard-to-find version that apparently is pure sugar.

[cudgy]

Primal Kitchen makes products like this. They have a ketchup with no sweeteners.

https://www.primalkitchen.com/products/organic-unsweetened-k...