Some artificial sugars do a number on my gut though

Do not eat any substantial amounts of candy containing xylitol. Stuff is a laxative, and lots of sugar-free candy and gum uses it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylitol

Adverse effects

Humans

When ingested at high doses, xylitol and other polyols may cause gastrointestinal discomfort, including flatulence, diarrhea, and irritable bowel syndrome (see Metabolism above); some people experience the adverse effects at lower doses.[21][36] Xylitol has a lower laxation threshold than some sugar alcohols but is more easily tolerated than mannitol and sorbitol.[37]

Personally, I find that sucralose is the only artificial sweetener that doesn't taste kinda gross. Maybe dried up stevia leaves would be ok but I'm pretty sure I taste some leftover solvent in the refined stuff. The compound itself might be natural (not that that even really matters, as the sugar it is intended to replace is also natural), but since it's not water soluable, processing it involves substances some would consider... unnatural.

Fuck you and your döner

• Bundestag, probably

Ordering "ohne scharf" because you're weak ❌
Ordering "ohne scharf" because you can't afford it ✅

O lol that's fairly recent tho. Yesterday they were all saying: hurr durr the drinking of sweet tasting things should be curbed and I almost punched the narrator via TCP/IP

If you read it, the tax will still apply to drinks with artificial sweetener:

"Gestern war ein Papier aus Klingbeils Ministerium bekannt geworden, demzufolge die geplante Abgabe mehr Produkte betreffen könnte als ursprünglich angenommen. In dem Papier des Finanzministeriums sind zum Beispiel auch Säfte, Milchersatzprodukte wie Hafer- und Mandelmilch und alkoholfreie Biermixgetränke genannt, außerdem Getränke, die lediglich Süßungsmittel enthalten."

My guess is because it's unsweetened, and that the tax applies to drinks with added sugar or sweetener.

Someone paid someone else a million and now juice with 50 percent sugar is not included in this.

Stevia coke is, how weird ..

Because like all laws, corruption came into the process to make it miss the goal entirely.

A company (Compal) in my country (Portugal) that has been making whole fruit juice since the 70's. If they made it any thicker, you could eat it with a fork.

Spain and France also have off-brand manufacturers of this type of fruit drink. Germany could learn something

because they aren't purtity testing their legislation and added sugar and added artificial sweeteners is their current target, it's a start ffs

Not all sugar is the same. I've read that natural fruit sugar is still way healthier than industrially refined sugar. Also fruit juice usually contains vitamins, electrolytes and fiber. So from a health perspective it makes sense to me to exempt 100℅ fruit juices. The alternative would be to only allow juice mixed with water or something else.

The problem is processed sugar being the cheapest calories per weight you can find so adding sugar to drinks is hyper cheap while getting people (especially kids) addicted and sick. 100% fruit juices arent the problem.

why is that rational but 100% pure milk is ok?

the milk that we're sold is for fucking cows. how much more 'unnatural' can you get? would you go cuddle a cow and drink from its tit?

i don't even buy any of the dangers of artificial sweeteners. can you even create a study where someone is indulging in aspartame and also not eating/drinking one of the other 34983048304834 chemicals we're taking in on a daily basis?

even if it is bad on some level, fruit juice is worse strictly going by sugar/calorie content unless it's squeezed straight from the fruit, which nobody is doing, other than weirdos.

I understand what you mean, dw there are still reasonable people

Starved poors mean less poors so everyone will be richer. Easy how that works isn't it?

Taxing sugar is protecting the poor people's wallets long-term from having to buy Ozempic, surgeries, sneakers for jogging, and fitness trackers.

That's the real way wealth gets transfered from the bottom to the top - by selling poison AND the treatment for it.

Nutri scores compare with similar products in a category.

Nuts and pizza are in different categories, and maybe that specific pizza was better than the rest.

If it doesn't contain sweeteners, then no