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I usually keep to a low carb diet. Recently I had a burger from a local burger joint bun included. The entire time I’m eating this burger I keep thinking this is the best damn burger I’ve had in forever. I chalk it up to being hungry. At the end of the burger I had bite of bun left that was bare of toppings. I ate it and realized this white bread bun is so sweet it tastes more like cake than bread… no wonder I thought the burger tasted so good.

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There was a story here about the Irish tax authority classifying Subway bread as a sweet, not as bread, due to the high sugar content. I think that's an accurate description of a lot of american breads.

https://www.npr.org/2020/10/01/919189045/for-subway-a-ruling...

Usually when I buy bread in the bread isle i discard all that have added sugars. But it's been getting hard recently.

"Irish tax authority"..."bread isle".

> Usually when I buy bread in the bread isle i discard all that have added sugars. But it's been getting hard recently.

Even companies that try to market their bread as healthy still add sugar but then try to imply that it is a "healthier" kind of sugar. I wrote to one about it and got this reply:

Thank you for checking in with Dave's Killer Bread about the sweetness of our bread. We use sweeteners because we find that our DKB consumers prefer a bread that is sweetened. All of our varieties are sweetened with organic dried cane syrup

So now I mostly make my own.

That’s at least a pretty honest response.

See about Nature's Own 100% Whole Wheat. I get it from Kroger. Total sugars are <1g, all of which seems to be added. The only sweetener I see on the ingredients list is brown sugar, but the FDA defines that as an added sugar so it's taken into account.

interesting. I have a massive sweet tooth but I absolutely hate sweet tastes in my savory food/dinner

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