• TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    18 minutes ago

    If you ever baked anything or made desserts this is no surprise. You always have to cut the sugar amount in half.

  • AnimalsDream@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    1 hour ago

    Too much refined sugar is bad. Too much fat, particularly saturated fats, are bad. When you put them together, they work synergistically to fuck you up so much more. But everyone zeroing in on the sugar exclusively, pay attention. There are 4 calories in a gram of sugar, and 9 calories in a gram of fat. In one serving that’s 21 grams of sugar times 4, which is 84 calories from sugar. By contrast, even though there is less fat by volume at 12 grams, it still amounts to more calories than the sugar at 108 calories per serving.

    And notably only 1 gram of fiber per serving.

    I don’t even remember what Nutella tastes like, and even when I did try it I never understood the hype. If I were trying to make a healthy alternative, I would blend together a mix of hazelnuts, walnuts, oats, cocoa, dates, and however much needed water to get the desired consistency. I don’t feel like added fats should be necessary (nuts are already naturally high in fats), but if I wasn’t satisfied with the results, I might try using a little canola or avocado oil. Knowing me, I’d probably squeeze some flax in as well.

    • petersr@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      European here. Sorry, but it is so ridiculous that labels don’t just show some standardized “per 100 g” so things are easily compared without math.

      • conartistpanda@lemmy.world
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        1 hour ago

        Yeah same opinion here, guess they cant make it easy for people to know what they put in their bodies or they might start caring right?

  • X@piefed.worldEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    I absolutely get the point. That said, I prefer eating my pizza dough first, then cheese, then marinara sauce. Sometimes I go sauce first when I think no one’s looking. Drink it right outta the tub like a champ.

    • Zacryon@feddit.org
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      6 hours ago

      No it’s a new food trend, haven’t you heard? It’s called “deconstructed food”, where they just throw the raw ingredients at you and leave it up to you to do the actual work. At the same time they sell it at a premium price brainwashing you into believing this is a new high end dining experience. /j

      • BanMe@lemmy.world
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        6 hours ago

        Deconstructed is a very popular way to do haute cuisine dishes. You have to do some of the work, and you only get a small fraction of what an entree would be, and you pay many times more. It’s brilliant.