When the bloody hell did food get so sweet?

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Made the mistake of shopping when hungry and saw spaghetti hoops, having not had them since I was a teenager I thought I'd have a nostalgic lunch.
I might as well have had sugar puffs on toast, I couldn't believe how sweet they were.
16 grams of sugar in a can! I had to bin them.
Surely they can't always have been that bad?

Yes, lots of foods taste too sweet now. It might be because fat and salt have been reduced. They seem to strip the fat out then add sugar - as in the low fat yoghurt fiasco. They're also adding glucose fructose syrup to everything and this is extra sweet compared to sugar.

I'm avoiding processed foods now as they're either too sweet or full of MSG which I have a reaction to and glucose fructose syrup gives me a massive blood sugar spike and I get very shaky.

I got a takeaway pizza the other day as a rare treat when we got back late from holiday. Sauce unpalatably sweet

Yep. I can't even finish a cake in the UK, not because I feel full, but because I start feeling sick.

Went abroad to Asia and basically lived off baked goods - the cakes there are about as sweet as a brioche/pancake, so you can have a massive slab and feel fine.

Although I did get a Wasabi takeaway from Sainsbury's and thought it was ridiculously salty. Looked on the box.....6g of salt in 1 portion!

Fairly sure it happened because of the low fat and low salt (especially salt) initiatives over the past few years. Tomato sauces seem to be amongst the worst offenders, along with yogurts.

Even fruit and veg has got a lot sweeter (they’ve been bred for sweetest varieties). Remember when you had to put sugar on a grapefruit or it would make your tongue curl?

I bought a breakfast sausage in a roll the other day and it was fecking brioche. Sweet bread and sausage don't go together unless you are warned first! Such a disappointment.

I find I am checking the labels for more things every time I shop. Palm oil which I avoid, basil and cinnamon which make me ill and now sugar substitutes/glucose syrups which also make me ill.

Sainsburys Love Your Veg Range is like syrup and is really disgusting, that was the reason I began checking for the sweet stuff.

Sweet bread like brioche and milk roll are nasty anyway but when they are not expected, vomit inducing.

I never buy canned soups because of the salt, we cut any flavoured yoghurt with plain Greek to make it less sweet.
Don't buy cordial because of the sweetners.
Went to the pub the other night and even the crisps had sugar in them, the world's gone bloody mad.

@DontCallMeShitley yes you are right about stuff being vomit inducing if it's a flavour you aren't expecting.
I'm as partial to a sweet treat as the next person but I don't want sugar in my savoury foods.

Prawn cocktail and sugar crisps, yuck. And look at the Lidl stuff too.

Yep. I used to love Aldi vegetable soup, but now thanks to the sugar they've decided to put in it, I can't stand it. Revolting!

Why are burgers served in a sweet bun? Why does Cadbury’s chocolate taste only of sugar and oil, not actual chocolate? Why aren’t baked beans advertised as a pudding as they’re so sweet?
This sugar-coating of everything has come from the US, home of the pumpkin pie which is 75% corn syrup.)

I’ve never made pumpkin pie with corn syrup, how bizarre.

Also when I moved here I had some spaghetti hoops and couldn’t believe how sweet they were! They were definitely not like that when I was a kid in the US. They really tasted quite awful.

My dad was moaning about the same thing on Saturday. He wanted some mustard pickle. But noticed the amount of sugar in it and put it back on the shelf. He is currently being tested for diabetes so has to be careful.

My local Sainsburys was stocking the Boka cereal bars. But now they only stock them in one flavour.

They do no added sugar ones, not tried them but I do buy no added/reduced sugar beans and tomato ketchup and the kids eat both so must be ok.

I live in the US. Here my biggest annoyance is bread that is unexpectedly sweet for no good reason.

I brought some brown bread rolls this weekend. First bite, realized they were sweet. I was so annoyed! Its not like I didn't have other options for sweet pastries when I was in the shop. I was really looking forward to something savory....

It's all self perpetuating, gyms then spring all over the place coz we have to burn it all.
Not too mention diabetes and other conditions associated with obesity.

But apparently we don't need to eat anywhere near as much to survive - far better to eat little and exercise not to burn fat but just to stay toned.

I do try to go to bed hungry and it makes me feel light in the morning although I am not quite there yet with eating little.

I bought some bagels the other day and my first thought as i took a bite was why is it so sweet.

And all the food that says no added sugar is pumped full of artificial sweeteners

Most things seem to be either too sweet or too salty now. Jars of pasta sauce are one of the worst culprits for being too sweet. When eating out lots of things are over-salted, especially chips.

I notice this when I don't cook from scratch, everything tastes awful I was beginning to think my tastebuds were playing up.
I've been noticing that awful artificial sweetener taste too and it surpised me hardly anyone else knows what I mean/ can taste it.

i find even bananas very sweet.

I find reduced sugar varieties even worse because they're full of artificial sweeteners which taste even sweeter!

Depressingly, although we had some great food in Thailand, we were astonished at how sweet and often salty the food was. We weren’t eating in hotels, just the places rammed with Thai and a sprinkling of tourists. I don’t know whether the waiting staff make a note and the kitchen chucks in a handful of palm sugar and holds back on the chillies for pasty foreigners or whether the Thai customers were getting the same.

The best food we had was cooked on a couple of burners in a tiny hill village.