The original article was about lower-income "countries". I pointing out it's also in the US. So yeah, pretty much everywhere. Unless you have data to prove otherwise, you're wrong.
According to this - https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/sugar-con... , countries trending lowest per-capita consumption of sugar tend to be the poorest. Exceptions are in latin America.
Higher inequality does not predict more sugar consumption either.