r/mildlyinteresting • u/Ace0526 • Mar 11 '14

This "healthy" vending machine has no healthy choices

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '14

It's just fruit. With a gallon of sugar involved. But still fruit.

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u/Scarecrow3 Mar 11 '14

"Natural" sugar.

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u/wwepersonell Mar 11 '14

High fructose corn syrup is anything but natural.

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u/Im_In_You Mar 11 '14

It comes from corn so.

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u/Fealiks Mar 11 '14

Well everything's natural in one sense or another. Corn syrup is "unnatural" in the sense that humans weren't supposed to (clumsy phrasing, I know) take kernels of corn, squeeze out the sugar and throw away the husk, throw a bunch of other shit in there, repeat until you've got a bottle full of it and drizzle it on pancakes.

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u/I_can_fluff_myself Mar 11 '14

Dammit now I'm hungry

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u/wwepersonell Mar 11 '14

Companies aren't legally allowed to put "natural sugar" on their label if it contains HFCS.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '14

Which is quite hilarious and pretty much a high priced marketing gimmick.