Of course! And it’s sugar gel inside cake.
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unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
The concept of “uncrustables” is something so absurd. Surely thats a US invention right?
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I was curious and looked up the nutrition info - weirdly a lot healthier than I expected. No HFCS, the bread appears to be absolutely normal bread, the fillings are sugary but in small enough quantities to not be particularly egregious. Still not great for you in that bread is terrible for you and sugar enriched peanut butter is a moral sin, but really theyre no worse than just making a sandwich from components.
ftbd@feddit.org 1 day ago
How is bread terrible for you?
Rothe@piefed.social 1 day ago
I think they mean American bread, which is just cake.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I was being hyperbolic. Bread is fine if high in carbs, and sugary peanut butter is gross but not a mortal sin.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s not as bad as all that, kinda. The soft-style breads you get in US supermarkets often have crusts that are very bitter to the highly sensitive bitter receptors children have, and which die off as you finish adolescence. It’s the basis for the idea of foods being an “acquired taste” and why children are so often portrayed as hating vegetables, to the perplexity of adults. The adult palate shifts sensitivity away from sweet and bitter flavours to umami and saltiness, and no longer finds things like kale or coffee or beer or brussel sprouts (yes I know about the new species no they aren’t less bitter) to be offensively flavoured. These things exist (intentionally or not) as a result of that largely culturally unknown shift and are an alright compromise for children particularly sensitive to their regional breads.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Looks like the studies back you up. Also explains why there is so much sugar in children’s foods. It says in the article that it’s because it helps you avoid poison, but aren’t some poisons sweet?
In this article, we review findings from basic, experimental research in children that suggest the liking of sweet taste and the dislike of bitter taste are not solely a product of modern-day technology and advertising, but are reflective of children’s basic biology.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4654709/
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Glad I’m not forgetting things in my dotteringly old age!
The reasoning for why this is, as I remember it, is that most poisons found in flora are deterrents, “designed” to dissuade mammals from consuming whichever part is poisonous, and not outright deadly. That’s why many fruits are perfectly edible even when the rest of the plant is toxic (yew berries, for example); it’s beneficial for the plant to have it’s seeds spread, but eating the stems / leaves / roots are all extremely harmful to the plant. Children, with their much lower body mass and tendency to stick everything into their mouths as a first reaction, are much more likely to be killed by a small amount of a poisonous plant and as a result need to be far more sensitive to trace amounts of a toxic substance in order to survive. Sweet poisons tend to be manufactured rather than naturally occurring, so wouldn’t have had an impact on the evolution of this trait.
MonkeyTown@midwest.social 1 day ago
Instructions extremely unclear…
Died.
Shit this one doesn’t even work for that does it?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
do they taste like anything so i can imagine it?
Revan343@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Some poisonous things are sweet, but a lot of natural poisons (and drugs) are bitter; alkaloids in general are bitter.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Also natural selection is much more biased against alkaloids (which are often found in plants similar to food) than against the sorts of sweet poisons like lead which is slow to kill and only widely present in very harmful doses thanks to refinement.
CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
Weird, the only thing I hated as a kid, was beer, olives, coffee(unless it was coffee crisps) and coca cola. My taste buds are still the same for over +25 years. Most of my family can’t handle anything “exotic” like greek, japanese, or other cultural foods. While I love tasting new foods, and wines.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Like all things biological, some people
are just fuckin’ weirdosdo not follow the standard developmental cycles. Your tastes may start changing, or may never change, and those are all perfectly reasonable outcomes.CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
I like everything, except extreme bitter. I have never been picky. Brussel sprouts are amazing grilled with a light oil, and salt.
Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Hm… Interesting. I’m in my thirties and those things haven’t really changed for me. I still can’t stand the taste of beer or coffee without a lot of additives, and the crust on breads is still very bitter to me. I actually brought up bread crust being bitter to some friends a while back because I was musing about why adults are just meant to suck it up and eat this despite the taste, and they had no idea what I was talking about.