Can make own at home, with a blender.

Roast your own nuts of choice.

Roasted Almond. Great.

Roasted Almond with roasted Hemp kernels. Great.

Roasted Almonds with roasted Hemp kernels, walnuts, pecans, pistachios, brazil nuts, hazelnuts, with a dash of chocolate, chilli, turmeric and white pepper... Great.

Taking the junk from the corporation... Not so great.

Much more fun exploring what ingredients go in your food, rather than have the corporation choose for you. They don't choose for you. They choose for themselves, at you. You end up with junk instead of food.

Much more fun making your own. Healthier, cost similar, more nutrition, and no where near as much nutrientless white crystalline addictants... unless you want that, and can add sugar back in if you want. (Roasting makes it sweet though. Top tip. Healthy sweet.)

Just almonds, roasted, then blended smooth at a medium speed. Try it. See which wins your taste test.

I'm pretty sure a little sugar is better than starving to death.

I am expendable, the planet isn’t. Don’t destroy our natural resources for palm oil production

Yeah I mean I agree, and I don't judge parents for "giving in". I was a really difficult kid myself when it comes to food.

there isn't more than a can full of sugar in a can of soda, that would be syrup.

i'm pretty sure the reason companies want palm oil is because it's solid (ish) at room temperature, so it makes the product thicker.

i mostly agree but sugar absolutely changes texture and flavour of things, that's why it's so standard in baking sweets.

i'm guessing a lot of the fat comes from the hazelnuts themselves, since part of what makes us consider something a nut is that there's lots of fat in it.

some are also hilariously cheaper, i just checked and the store brand here is literally 70% the cost of nutella..

i also think it matters in which country it's done, fucking up other countries to give yourself luxuries is more distasteful than fucking up your own back yard.

mine's literally 30% cheaper, every time i think about the purchasing habits of the average person i have to go watch cat videos to stop the red mist from taking over and waking up with bite marks in the furniture

so if cooking it doesn't kill germs, what exactly do you eat?

why would i eat it less frequently when i can just make it healthier and enjoy it all the time? that makes absolutely no sense to me

it's also quite nice to grow more things domestically because it means you have some regulatory oversight and the money you spend will stay in the local economy and thus might make its way back to you.
Like if companies start using domestic canola oil, that means canola farms might open near you, where YOU could get a job and get money to buy things like food and housing! very cool

There is a video about it on YouTube, one can of coke has 8 big full spoons of sugar in it

If it's actually good tasting to you, and everyone who is going to eat it genuinely feels the same, go for it. But like, ever tried eating a rhubarb pie with most or all of the sugar omitted? It is horrible and a waste of food because the bitterness of the rhubarb needs to be balanced by the sugar. You can't just take any recipe and cut out the central ingredient and expect to get palatable results. Making something else instead is the safer option.

Also though, it is worse for you to eat smaller amounts of sugar consistently than a large amount of sugar all at once rarely, the former makes a better environment for bacteria growing on your teeth, and sugar is addictive so making a habit of just having a little on a regular basis will likely result in eating more overall than you otherwise would have.

i'm not sure what you want me to say, it's basic physics that if you put a larger volume of sugar into a smaller volume of water, that becomes syrup. And soda in the can is very clearly not syrup.

How are carbohydrates and sugar meaningfully different in the body? They both end up in the blood as glucose in the same ratios. With a slight time delay

Carbohydrates are long chains of sugars that get broken down in time and released slowly, sugar is just garbage glucose and fructose, the fructose being the garbage, 50/50. High fructose corn syrup. Glucose is used in the body as is and it's good, that is what hospitals use for IV drips, the fructose on the other hand goes to the liver and gets metabolized into fat which then gets broken down into sugars.

You may recall Sports where the coach told you to eat pasta the night before a match and explained that complex carbohydrates are ideal. It seems like the younger folk we're not taught this though because you are not the first to see him completely unaware of this.

Agreed that fructose is a wrecking ball.

The trouble is that persistently elevated glucose causes all sorts of problems in the body, the most famous being type 2 diabetes.

Carb loading for sports is in vogue, but only in the context of a metabolism that can't mobilize fat, in a healthy adult who can use fat carb loading is unnecessary.

All that said: the difference between ingesting glucose and carbohydrates is minimal, a very small time shift.

https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/31.11.1998

You seem to know what you're talking about, I won't argue, I have also long thought that having food in your system is not necessary for physical activity, for a healthy person. For a good share of my adult life I did not eat until afternoon and often did long distance runs before I had eaten anything, and I felt great, if I did eat I would feel worse than if I did not. It would slow me down.

But the coaches and teachers in the 90s were big on carb loading the night before. They would Advocate oatmeal the morning of the contest.

I share the same feeling, I go into the gym before I eat anything for the day!

Yeah, carb loading has a place historically, kinda a commonly held myth.