On: Nestle says it will cut sugar in chocolate by 40%

[johnny99]

We too almost always reduce the sugar in recipes, and also find it usually improves flavor. Though the article says Nestle has made a "scientific breakthrough" so that you get the same level of sweetness with less sugar--so their products may remain overly-sweep goop.

Probably healthier at least, unless their re-engineered sugar has weird side effects like Olestra does. I'll take high sugar over "anal leakage" any day:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olestra#Side_effects

[dqv → johnny99]

I really dislike that they stopped making products with olestra. Not everyone got anal leakage.

[brokenmachine → dqv]

I'm guessing that the people who did will have a different opinion to you.

[nitrogen → brokenmachine]

Labeling is an option.

[brokenmachine → nitrogen]

True, but I don't think I'd eat a chocolate bar with that warning on the label.

Maybe it was decided that other consumers would probably make the same decision?

[nitrogen → brokenmachine]

That's probably okay; the few who really want non-nutritive oils could still buy them. But the volume might be low enough to force them off supermarket shelves and into specialty stores.