Cussing at Added Sugar

#1

Actually, what I was thinking was fuck you added sugar, but I don’t think you can blur topic titles.

I went to a brunch fundraiser this morning and avoided all kinds of starchy and carby items on the buffet. I stuck to salad, ham and a couple deviled eggs. Sound fine, right? But the salad dressing was so sweet I nearly spit it out. I saw the brand on the bottle, so I looked it up when I got home: 14g in 2 tablespoons! Vinagrette needs precisely zero sugar in it. Ugh.

Then I stopped at the grocery store on the way home and came home without mayonnaise–because there were zero versions in any brand that didn’t have added sugar. Again mayo needs zero sugar. And now I have to make an extra trip to Trader Joe’s to buy mayo.

It’s one thing avoiding foods that should have carbs or starches in them like bread, but adding sugar to things that shouldn’t have it, just pisses me off.

(squirrel-kissing paper tamer) #2

They gotta find a way to sell their buddy’s sugar so they sneak it into all kinds of stuff. I have decided everything has sugar unless proven otherwise because of experiences like yours. The good news is now you know.

(Jane) #3

With a stick blender and a wide-mouth mason jar you can make your own mayo in less than 5 minutes. Super easy! And then you KNOW it doesn’t have any added sugar.

I use this recipe and so far has been fool-proof for me.

#4

Either you have to coddle the eggs yourself or buy pasteurized ones, plus it doesn’t last that long…I also don’t need to add to the list of stuff I have to do myself in the kitchen. Instead, how about companies just make things with normal recipes that don’t add sugar to savory foods??

(Jane) #5

Yes, that would be ideal!

I don’t do anything special to my eggs and it lasts for weeks in the fridge so not understanding the risks.

#6

There’s a very high risk of salmonella from eggs in the U.S. 30 years ago this was a growing, perhaps temporary issue in New England and the mid-Atlantic. Now it’s everywhere, all the time. Also, commercially made mayo will be pasteurized during the canning process and has other preservatives that will help stave off bacteria in an open jar of mayo. This doesn’t exist in homemade mayo.

(Jane) #7

Ah, ok thanks.

(Lazy, Dirty Keto 😝) #8

:point_up_2:t4: this. And this is also why so many people are addicted to sugar - they don’t even know they’re eating it.

(Cristian Lopez) #9

you should be concerned with the canola and vegetable oils used in mayo

(Full Metal KETO AF) #10

I’m so glad you’re still with us @Janie :cowboy_hat_face:

(Jane) #11

LOL

Yep, all those weeks-old jars of mayo made with raw eggs, not refrigerating my butter or ketchup… it’s a wonder I’m still alive!

At least in 3 months I’ll have my own eggs. :rooster:

(Randy) #12

Unless you buy 100% avocado oil mayo($$$$$), store bought is always a crappy seed oil. Usually soybean oil. AVOID. I’ve been making my own for 2 years with olive oil and a raw egg. 1 cup of oil at a time. It lasts at least a week (not that 1 cup lasts that long around here). Never had an issue. Just food for thought.

#13

Yes, it is probably soybean or canola oil. Not everyone’s diet is going to be your perfect diet.

But, let’s worry about one thing at a time. Me complaining and ranting about how obsessed people are with the perfect diet and going off on tangents about kinds of oil in other people’s diets or insisting that people go to extreme efforts to have every ingredient homemade or assuming that people don’t have a clue about one thing (seed oil) when they’ve posted about something completely different (sugar) will be another post.

Right now, I’m pissed off and ranting about putting sugar in savory foods that are store bought.

(Andi loves space, bacon and fasting. ) #14

Recently I spent ages in the mustard section of a fancy local grocery store, frustrated that sugar was in every mustard I looked at. I finally found one that I could buy. To my delight I discovered that Trader Joe’s own dijon mustard has no sugar or artificial sweetener.

And I feel your angst. Sugar in salad dressing is absolutely unnecessary and makes it so difficult to eat outside of the home.

(Candace) #15

I get it - it pisses me off when I find sugar in things that really do not require it. I do a lot of homemade stuff, but I do not always have the time to make everything that way and I do not want to drive 1 1/2 hours (one way) to go to Whole Foods or Trader Joe’s to get the good stuff.

(Full Metal KETO AF) #16

Since I guess I fall between strict, dirty and lazy keto (recent rant threads acknowledged) I don’t worry about added sugar as long as it’s still low carb and fits into my daily carb macro total. For instance I use occasional salad dressing from a bottle, oyster sauce, sriracha, sushi pickled ginger, commercial sausages and bacon, ham and cold cuts. But it always fits into my carb limits so “Who cares?”

You seem to gravitate from “everything’s cool if it works for you” to ranting about a gram of sugar in a serving or dressing.

#Notaketoworldwelivein. :cowboy_hat_face:

#17

Yeah, I think you’re right. I’m not sure they conflict though. I have stuff in my fridge and cupboards that have sugar. But they’re supposed to have sugar. I don’t feel like screaming at the people that make teriyaki sauce because it has sugar in it. I eat things like that in tiny amounts because it works for me, as you point out. I don’t think sugar should be banned from the planet. If some people want to buy and eat sugared mayonnaise, that’s fine. Some people like Mountain Dew. Whatever.

But for as long as there have been mayonnaise recipes, they haven’t included sugar–except for the commercially prepared stuff you buy in a jar at the supermarket. And then all of it has sugar. And that salad dressing I’m ranting about doesn’t just have “a gram of sugar in a serving,” it has 14g of sugar in a two tablespoon serving– a full third of the contents is sugar!

(Full Metal KETO AF) #18

:scream: Are you sure it’s not pancake syrup? Better throw that out!

#19

It was on a buffet at an event. I had put a little on my salad greens, but knew at the first bite that I wasn’t going to eat more. (I’m sure a bite of salad didn’t ruin my day). It was gross.

And yeah, it was like syrup. It’s horrible that it’s representative of where popular tastes have gone to.

(Full Metal KETO AF) #20

That’s almost double the carbs as the high fructose Heinz Ketchup hiding in my fridge has. I keep thinking that I should throw it out but I can’t seem to let go of it, I have only used a squirt in 8 months! :cowboy_hat_face:

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