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Nestle Discovers 'Breakthrough' Method To Cut Sugar In Chocolate By 40% Without Affecting Taste (theguardian.com)
Nestle and its scientists have discovered how to "structure sugar differently" to reduce the amount of sugar in some of its products by 40%. What's more is that it can be done reportedly without compromising the taste. The Guardian reports: The new process is said to make sugar dissolve faster so that even when less is used, the tongue perceives an identical level of sweetness. It plans to patent the process, discovered by its scientists, which it says will enable it to significantly decrease the total sugar in its confectionery products. A four-finger milk chocolate Kit Kat currently contains 23.8g of sugar, a plain (milk chocolate) Yorkie contains 26.9g and a medium peppermint Aero has 24.9g of sugar. If the amount of sugar in each of these products was cut by 40% the new amounts would be 14.3g, 16.1g and 14.9g respectively.
Now I'll have to eat nearly twice as much to maintain my obesity.
Oh my God! They're eating DOGS!
People on slashdot would have a hard time multiplying a number by 0.4
Indeed they would not. However they do sometimes stumble about when to multiply a number by 0.4.
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If the amount of sugar was *CUT* by 40%, slashdot readers would have to multiply by .6.
See, math isn't always so simple, is it?
Because the goal is to not make the chocolate taste like shit.
I would argue that the first step in realizing that goal is to avoid Nestle products at all costs.
Well, and Dove... Dove is better than Hershey's, but not as good as I remember Nestle chocolate being.
Dove does taste better than Hershey's but please note that it's intended to be a body soap.
Parent post is inaccurate and shouldn't be modded informative.
Dark chocolate still has sugar in. It doesn't have milk in like milk chocolate.
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Yes I agree, I live in central Europe and if you ever have tasted LÃderach (Swiss) or Bachhalm or Zotter (Austrian) you would not touch any Nestle dreck with a 10 ft pole.
If you really lived in Central Europe, you would know that Poles, although excellent people, rarely get that tall.