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Tilted Cat Head
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Originally Posted by Willravel
Uh huh.
Corn costs more to produce than high fructose corn syrup? Yeah, that makes perfect sense. Oh, and I'll bet oats are REALLY expensive when compared to aspartame.
Your article fails in a major way: it's not put together by people who are budgeting.
HA! I've been on a low calorie diet for years and I only spend that much a day when I eat out or have a formal (read: splurge) meal. I'll bet I could spend half that on low calorie food and have a wonderful day of food that is slightly over 2000 calories.
Smart consumers, or consumers who are aware that an 80 calorie apple that costs $0.59 will leave you just as full and energized as a 440 calorie Double Cheeseburger from McDonalds that costs $1.00, would be able to sit down for a few minutes and figure out how to eat healthy on a tight budget and manage to be much more efficient than someone who eats fast food.
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Yes, HFCS is a by product that has become monetized. HFCS is easier to sustain constant costs than SUGAR which is what it was meant to replace. HFCS is not cheaper to produce than corn, cheaper to predict and hedge profits. Sugar is quite expensive as a commodity which is why you see HFCS as a replacement in cheap foodstuffs wherein sugar is not required such as cakes, cookies, candies.
ERS/USDA Briefing Room - Sugar and Sweeteners: Data Tables
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Cost of wholesale Sugar
http://www.ers.usda.gov/briefing/sugar/Data/Table04.xls
Cost of HFCS
http://www.ers.usda.gov/briefing/sugar/Data/TABLE09.XLS
Annual US Per capita consumption of Coke in servings: 411
People in the United States: 297,890,000
Servings of Coke in the US, per year: 122,432,790,000
How much a 5 cent cost increase in sweetner, per serving, would affect the bottom line of Coca Cola: $6,121,639,500
How much a penny cost increase in sweetner, per serving, would cost Coca-Cola: $1,224,327,900
How much 1/10th of a cent increase in sweetner, per serving, would cost Coca-Cola: $122,423,790.
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An alternative organic you'll start seeing this year is agave nectar as an organic sweetener. It's not cheap and isn't really all that healthy for you either.
ummm yes it is put together by people who are budgeting. It is put together by people who are monitoring how people SPEND their money. It may not be the way that YOU budget, but it is how other people budget.
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