Tag: sugar
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EWG Unveils “Food Scores” Database
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) has released a database and mobile app that score some 80,000 food products using three criteria—nutrition, ingredient concerns and processing—to inform consumers that “popular brands in many categories are not so much food as they are conveyances for excessive amounts of sugar, salt and preservatives.” According to an October 27,…
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United States and Mexico Reach Deal on Sugar Imports
Hours before U.S. regulators were poised to penalize Mexican sugar imports, the United States and Mexico reached an agreement to set a price floor on imported sugar and to suspend anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties. The dispute began in April 2014 when the U.S. Department of Commerce initiated an investigation following petitions from the U.S. sugar…
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New Study Provides Basis for Fructose-Tolerance Test
Investigators with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) have for the first time identified a hormone that, when stimulated by fructose ingestion, could serve as the basis for a reliable fructose-tolerance test. Jody Dushay, et al., “Fructose ingestion acutely stimulates circulating FGF21 levels in humans,” Molecular Metabolism, October 2014. Known as Fibroblast Growth Factor 21…
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Claims Trimmed in Mott’s “No Sugar Added” Putative Class Action
A California federal court has granted in part and denied in part a motion for summary judgment in a lawsuit alleging that Mott’s violated the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) and California’s Sherman Law standards on the use of “no sugar added” on food packaging. Rahman v. Mott’s LLP, No. 13-3482 (N.D. Cal., order…
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Wired Reviews Obesity Research Initiatives Focused on Sugar
Examining the evolution of the Nutrition Science Initiative (NuSI), a recent Wired magazine article by Sam Apple explores how NuSI’s latest research efforts seek to test long-standing assumptions about the health effects of sugar and fat. Titled “Why Are We So Fat? The Multimillion-Dollar Scientific Quest to Find Out,” the article highlights the work of…
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Preliminary Commerce Ruling Will Raise Cost of Sugar from Mexico
The Department of Commerce has issued an affirmative preliminary determination in a countervailing duty (CVD) investigation of sugar imports from Mexico, and the United States is preparing to impose import duties as high as 17 percent on Mexican sugar. According to an International Trade Administration fact sheet, the CVD investigation was instituted in March 2014…
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The Globe and Mail Criticizes Society’s Fear of Sugar
National Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail has traced the history of sugar from its roots as a luxury to its current incarnation as a “forbidden fruit, the momentary pleasure infused with a lifetime of guilt.” Author John Allemang argues that the human taste for sweetness is natural and that “when we denounce sugar, we…
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Whole Foods Hit with Second Lawsuit Based on Consumer Reports’ Yogurt Findings
Echoing a putative class action filed in Massachusetts federal court on August 1, 2014, a plaintiff has filed a lawsuit against Whole Foods Market in Pennsylvania state court accusing the retailer of mislabeling its 365 Everyday Value yogurt’s sugar content as 2 grams despite containing 11.4 grams, according to test results published in the July…