Everybody knows we eat a lot of sugar in this country. But did you realize that you consume 75 pounds of it per year, or as John Oliver puts it, one Michael Cera’s-worth?
In honor of Halloween and the $2.2 billion of spending on candy that accompanies it, Oliver took a look at American sugar consumption habits on Last Week Tonight. The average American consumes 22 grams of sugar per day, which is triple the amount you actually need; it’s kind of hard to avoid it, though, when pretty much everything has sugar added to it.
Even though the FDA wants more transparency from companies that make sugar-heavy products, the sugar lobby is aggressively fighting to avoid any reforms to sugar labels. Shocking. But hey, if your product tastes as “unpalatable” as a plain cranberry, wouldn’t you fight too?
[via UPROXX]
