sugar
Have you ever wondered why there isn’t a recommended sugar amount on nutrition facts? Big news: sugar will now be required to include the percentage of a daily recommended amount [1][2]. Why did it take so long? This is a story of unintended consequences, greed, and injustice.
It turns out, the American cultural obsession with “fat” for the past 20 years changed industry. The solution to cutting fat in manufactured products? Add more sugar.
It will remain to be seen what unintended consequences arise out of this, but for the time being, we can celebrate food justice for the food illiterate while keeping an eye out for how greed will take a positive change and transform it into injustice again.
https://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/08/sugar/cohen-text
https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-food-labels-added-sugar-20160606-story.html