[rolisz]

Did you ever go and eat a bag of pure sugar? Or rather a bag of sweets, which usually contain other stuff, not just sugar.

We're not addicted to sugar, the "sugar cravings" are mostly to combos of carbs and fats.

Eating enough turns off my "sugar cravings". Eating lots of protein makes any craving for sugar disappear (I survived last Christmas by not eating any cakes, just lots of meat).

[humlex]

Thats my philosophy too. If you're full, you have no cravings at all. I have zero sugar cravings unless im really hungry, at which point real food is still the better option. Focusing on what you Should eat (nuts, berries, greens, etc) is much more rewarding than obsessing over what not to eat.

[viraptor]

> We're not addicted to sugar, (...) Eating enough turns off my "sugar cravings".

Glad it works for you, but that's not universal. I'm pretty much addicted to sugar, regardless of what else I eat. So I have to not buy it in the first place - that way it's just not available.

[baconbrand]

I think this might be an issue that’s independent of sugar. Something something dopamine and serotonin. I also do not have issues with sugary foods, but I did in the past when my life was more stressful.

[hshdhdhehd]

Sure, and doing chores around the house or walking the dog cures my phone cravings.

[carlosjobim]

Look down the cart of your fellow shoppers the next time you go to the super market. Odds are some of them will have only huge bottles of sugar drink, sugar cereals and cookies.

[saagarjha]

You may be surprised how close many candies are to being pure sugar with food coloring.

[CaptainOfCoit]

> You may be surprised how close many candies are to being pure sugar with food coloring.

Grab a fistful of whatever candy you're thinking about when you say that and put it in your mouth. Then once you've done that, try doing the same with pure sugar. Tell me if you think you got different amounts of sugar in your mouth or not.

It's not the first time I hear this soundbite, and while it perhaps sounds cool as a TikTok comment, it really doesn't make much sense in reality.

[Anonbrit]

Now take pure sugar, add a dash of mint essence and a little oil, dissolve in hot water then dry in a warm oven. Kendal mint cake.

Take pure sugar, add to hot water to make a thick syrup, add food colouring, cook at two hundred and something degrees. Hard candy.

Most other candy recipes are similar, and over 50% sugar by weight. Sugar is the main ingredient by weight after water of many drinks.

You're being deliberately obtuse if you continue to insist on comparing a bag of sugar to something made mostly of sugar. It's like saying "You like steak? Ok, go lick that cow then tell me you like steak!" - it's a straw man argument.

[dahart]

The difference you’re tasting is primarily flavoring, not sugar density, so that’s not a great test. People can’t really tell the difference by taste between hard candy made of pure sugar and hard candy made of sugar plus cornstarch, especially when other flavors are added. But anyway, candy generally tastes insanely sweet and sugary to me. What is the point here? The fact that candy is mostly sugar and people say so predates TikTok by a bit… centuries? Isn’t candy defined as anything sweet where sugar is the primary ingredient?

[saagarjha]

You can literally read the nutrition facts for Nerds or Jolly Rancher lol

[CaptainOfCoit]

I literally don't have those in my country :) Based on labels I found online, seems "Jolly Rancher" is more or less 61% sugar of its total weight.

[saagarjha]

I'm not sure what you're looking at, the nutrition labels I see are like 17g sugar out of an 18g serving size

[CaptainOfCoit]

From https://www.myfooddiary.com/foods/143911/jolly-rancher-hard-... (maybe the wrong one?)

Then I did something like "3 pieces weigh 18g with ~11g total sugars and 17g total carbs so about 61% sugars"

[a_wild_dandan]

How does having management strategies over an alleged addiction imply that it isn’t an addiction?

[baconbrand]

I take it you are unfamiliar with the “do not get addicted to water” speech in Mad Max.

[trvz]

The cakes may have been healthier.