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I know fruit contain still a bunch of sugar, but a bunch of fibers and a treasure of nutriments

If only more kids were raised with more fruit and vegetable in mind than processed products.

What's a better treat than an apple, an orange, a persimmon, fig, kiwi (tip: don't hesitate to eat them with the skin, above all if they are organic), and spinach, salad and all sort of herbs, or even a raw scallion or leek for the adventurous?

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>What's a better treat than an apple, an orange, a persimmon, fig, kiwi...?

If 'better' refers to taste, the answer is simple: an Oreo.

Taste is in the tongue of the beholder.

For someone who has not eaten any chocolate bar or biscuits since 10 years, I'm not sure to like their taste anymore like I used to (unfortunately)

For someone who really likes sweet chocolate etc, an Oreo is too vulgar even too me. I feel sick to my stomach. Powdery sugar with something brown in it.

I still miss Hydrox cookies.

You can (could?) order them online. I ordered some last year and found them to be “crisper” than Oreos. In a side-by-side taste test, my family agreed that fresh Oreos seemed stale by comparison.

Are there different Oeros? What you described doesn't seem to fit the description of a the North American Oreo. It's artificial sweetened shortening wedged between two chocolaty "wafers". No powdery sugar involved.

> Are there different Oreos?

In fact... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Oreo_varieties

But I suspect they are describing the texture of the classic wafer when chewed, which does seem like an apt description.

Oh yeah there's a ton of varieties, but I was wondering if there was a regional thing here where the products are totally different even with the same name, like chips.

No I mean the classic (I assume) dark wafer with white shortening in it. Now I also remembered how vile the white stuff is too - it kind of sticks to your upper palate.

There are sugar overloaded competitors [0], which are pretty shameless too. But at least they taste like an honest lot of sugar, flavouring, fat and flour.

I feel bad for kids getting fat on Oreos. If you get fat on real sweets, at least you taste something decent in the process. Oreos are vile. I have given them the benefit of a doubt!

I have even tried putting them in ice cream, thinking maybe they are just too sweet, and that their sweetness will fit better together with something else not as intensely sweet. But no, the ice cream just diluted the Oreo vile-ness. The perverted, gone-one-step-too-far industrial wiff of Cthulhu was still in there, carefully masking the fun from each spoonful of icecream.

Vile.

0: https://www.goteborgskex.se/products/

That's a lot of vitriol for a tasty vegan snack.

Uranium, selected from the finest natural ore, carefully enriched, is vegan too. :)

Harder to chew though.

Just grind it fine enough and mix it with vegetable shortening.

Oreos taste like sugar, chalk and chocolate. I used to love them but, the more I desensitize to the insane sugar levels in these types of food, they have become kind of nasty. They make me feel horrible and taste funny.

Actually I can't detect much chocolate taste. Sugar and chalk.

ugh, no idea how anyone can "enjoy" these.

much like things like Twinkies and Peeps... I dont understand how they became so popular with the american taste buds.

I feel ill after eating one Twinkie, Peeps are so sweet they make my teeth hurt. (Australian here)

Modern fruit is so very sweet. I'd love to see a proper study of sugars and GI index in a 2020 Honeycrisp vs what the official stats say is in an apple. I really suspect it isn't much different from a candy bar.

surely yes, but the fiber along-side the fruit is very very important, for its nutritional value, and how it helps to slowly release the sugar in your intestine, like a sponge

Absolutely. That's why folks say fruit juice is not great, because you get the sugar with little of the beneficial stuff. 0

So everyone should drink their Pepsi with some Metamucil?

No. The theory is that, in order to get to the sugars, the body has to first break down the fiber in the fruit. This "flattens the curve" of sugar that is available to the body. That doesn't happen when you mix already separated sugar with fiber. But, it should be noted: this is merely a theory. In truth, not much is actually known about the finer details of human nutrition.

I actually think hey are too sour most of the time. That's one of the reasons I don't like eating fruits much.

Any GI index which is not determined on an individual level is likely to be useless.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2015.11.001

http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2014.16658

It's a habit you need to keep your whole life. I grew up eating mostly fruit for dessert every day until I was 17. Once I left my parent's home I lost that habit very quickly. Now I'm 33 and still have to push myself to eat fruit instead of junk sweet food.

Personally, a sweetish orange. Apples are more texture than flavor, and figs have too many tiny seeds. Kiwis are too tart. And the veggies are fine but an orange is way better.

Oh my. The mouth texture of figs, including the crunch of the seeds, is probably the single best thing about them.

https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/blogs/are-there-re...

Not saying that's bad. It's just funny.

Wait until he hears about dates.

I had never seen a fresh fig until my thirties when I moved to the West Coast. The insides are so alien looking that it creeps me out (and let's all agree not to think about fig wasps). But, my God, what a divine fruit. They are truly heavenly. One of the rare foods that is near perfection all on its own.

We were doing this, but the lockdowns pretty much blew a hole in it. It's difficult to maintain eating this kind of food without going to the store every 2-3 days or accidentally end up throwing out massive amounts of food every once in a while.

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