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gumby • yesterday at 6:20 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

I remember looking at a carton of Whole Foods soy milk that prominently said “no added sugar”.

I looked on the back and after water the second ingredient was “dehydrated cane juice”.

The food system has been gamed forever.


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hn_throwaway_99 • today at 1:30 AM

Unless you can link some actual reference, I'm going to call bullshit on this one. Dehydrated cane juice is literally just (less refined) sugar, and in my experience I have never seen a "no added sugar" label on a product with dehydrated cane juice. I actually look a lot for this because in my experience "all natural" combined with "no added sugar" almost always means Stevia, and I can't stand that stuff.

I just did a search online and all the Whole Foods soy milk I could fine listed either "organic cane sugar" as an ingredient, or was unsweetened.

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