I was explaining this to my daughter in quite simplified terms the other day- we evolved to taste sugar and enjoy it because finding a sweet edible plant meant we had a source of energy to help us hunt that day. Pretty useful if you’re a hunter-gatherer.

So we seek out sugar. Now we can get it whenever we want it, in much more massive quantities than we are supposed to be processing. Most of us are addicted. I’m not an exception.

  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    93·
    14 hours ago

    I might advise not downing an entire pound-and-a-half jar of spaghetti sauce in one go.

    • Donkter@lemmy.world
      14·
      13 hours ago

      Maybe it’s saying instead of eating yogurt just slam 1.5 lbs of tomato sauce instead?

    • Aceticon@lemmy.world
      32·
      10 hours ago

      The actual spaghetti you add it to has an even higher percentage of carbohydrates - in the form of starch which the human body easily turns into sugars - than the sauce so paradoxically you’ll end up with less sugar in your blood stream by downing that sauce by itself than if you eat it with spaghetti.

      (That said, this is for uncooked spaghetti: when you cook it it grows by absorbing water which reduces the fraction of carbohydrates in the final product, so depending on the type of spaghetti it might or not end up with more carbohydrates than the sauce).