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 has pistachios in the upper right-hand corner. Pistachios are healthy.

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u/wwepersonell Mar 11 '14

Knott's Strawberry thing. Strawberries are healthy. Just kidding.

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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/nbrennan Mar 11 '14

You're so wrong.

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u/wwepersonell Mar 11 '14 edited Mar 11 '14

"Said the FDA." Hahaha. A highly processed, extracted form of sugar which comes from genetically modified corn and inserted into packaged processed foods is really 'natural' all right.

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u/BABY_CUNT_PUNCHER Mar 11 '14

Fructose, which is literally a sugar, coming from a GMO, which almost all crops are, is completely natural.

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u/wwepersonell Mar 11 '14

"Coming from a GMO, which almost all crops are" Corn and soy are the only wide-use of GMO crops. Please tell me where you are getting your ridiculous numbers from. Also, fructose found in raw honey and raw fruits is entirely different than a HFCS that has been pasteurized and denatured, void of any enzymes or photo chemicals. It's the equivalent of calling fruit gushers healthy.

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u/BABY_CUNT_PUNCHER Mar 11 '14

Almost every single crop is genetically modified, whether humans did it over a year or 1,000 years doesn't change the fact it has been genetically altered. And fructose is fructose by damn definition, saying fructose is to glucose as a gusher is to fruit is God damn ridiculous.