Opinicus wrote:

Alan wrote in message
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For whatever reason, we in North American have gotten used to a lot of
foods having sugar in them -- especially prepared foods from food
factories.
I don't like it, but it seems to have spread over the last 40, or so,
years.

I'm wondering if it's because of:

1. Baby foods with sugar added to them to make them more palatable to mother
and baby

and/or

2. Sugar-frosted breakfast cereals targeted at kids

Good grief! Is sugar allowed in baby foods in the USA? As far as I
know, it isn't in the UK. It certainly wasn't in any if the (admittedly
very few) baby foods I bought for my son, 9 or so years ago. Nor was
salt. Mostly I made my own, so salt and sugar were never an issue.
Food processors are wonderful things...

The breakfast cereals we have in the house: Wheetabix, Shredded Wheat,
no added sugar muesli made by Canterbury Wholefoods (has whole hazel
nuts and biiiig chunks of Brazils in it - yummy, but hard going!), and
Kellogg's Fruit & Fibre, which does have sugar in, but isn't coated in
it like Frosties. And, naturally, porridge oats and pinhead oatmeal!


DH eats the Man Sized muesli, I eat the Wheetabix, Shredded Wheat and
porridge, son occasionally eats the Fruit & Fibre or Wheetabix, but
would usually rather have a cold meat or cheese sandwich for breakfast,
or a cold sausage...

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