Big Question: Why Does Sugar Taste So Good?

https://newsela.com/read/elem-big-q-why-do-we-love-sugar/id/39427/

     In the article, it stated that sugar tastes sweet because it is made up of sweet tasting molecules.  Even as babies we crave sugar. We need sugar as fuel but humans eat 20 teaspoons of unneeded sugar everyday. Humans do not have a way to stop themselves when it comes to sugar so we eat too much of it without realizing. Children daily, are allowed to eat up to six extra teaspoons of sugar each day. "That's less sugar than in one can of soda" (paragraph 14). People could fight that fruits have sugar in them too but doctors have researched and stated that the natural sugars are okay. It is the added sugars that are making us unhealthy.
     I was shocked to read that we eat 20 unneeded teaspoons of sugar. I was also surprised to read that we all really could have a much healthier diet if there wasn't so much added sugar into all of the foods we eat.

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  1. AnonymousNovember 12, 2018 at 6:29 AM

    It is crazy how addicted we are to sugar and how most people have no idea this is a real issue.

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