Sugar

Surveying the whole scope of human history vis-à-vis food, a couple of themes emerge. One is that humans like their…

The battle for children’s taste buds is old news now, but I’ll recap it for you. Kids like sugar. Companies know…

If you thought Cadbury Creme Eggs were humanity’s greatest confectionery creation, Alex O’Brien Yeatts, a baking and…

You may have noticed a subtle change on your food ingredients list. Big, bad sugar is being replaced by the fresher,…

Scientists assumed there is just a single type of taste receptor on the tongue responsible for our perception of…

I laughed. Pretty hard, actually. Right when the fluffy cloud that is cotton candy started oozing sweet sugary alien…

El Niño is almost over, but the wreckage of things it knocked over in its wake continues—and one of those things is…

Americans are used to breaking down their foods into different groups—and to plenty of different opinions about just…

Play with your food. That’s the moral of the story from Crazy Russian Hacker. He put marshmallows in one of those…

Most reasonable people can generally agree on two things: the Earth is round and soda is bad for you. And though we…

This morning, the USDA and the Department of Health and Human services finally issued a new set of American dietary…

A helluva lot of sugar and a helluva lot of machinery. That’s what it takes to make candy canes and it’s very close…

One present to the King of Prussia launched an industry that, if current experts are to be believed, will kill us…

This video is titled ‘Granular Satisfaction’ and there’s really no better way to explain it. A mound of sugar…

We know that, scientifically speaking, brown sugar makes better song lyrics than white sugar, but what is the actual…

Why does everything have sugar in it? It isn't just in there because it tastes good. If that were all sugar had to…

A recent analysis of nearly 320 internal sugar industry documents from 1959 to 1971 shows how the industry sought to…

One of my favorite things: seeing the process of how things are made from things I've never ever wondered how they…