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You're basically just describing the typical diet of a European. HFCS is highly regulated, dough conditioners are effectively regulated, etc, etc.

For whatever reason everything in the American diet is cut with sugar (HFCS mostly), never understood this. Maybe corn subsidies?

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That and historical lobbies, https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074...

Yes it’s shocking looking at food labels in the US how hard it is to avoid even basic foods without added sugar, which most of the time do not have it in European equivalent products.

The easiest way is to avoid buying foods that are required to have labels. I do most of my shopping in the produce, dairy, and butcher section to avoid that.

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