The sugar industry has over fifty names for sugar. Instead of labeling them as sugar, the sugar industry creates scientific names, so consumers won’t know how much sugar is actually in their foods. Some of those names include: high fructose corn syrup, maltodextrin, dextrose, and sorghum. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new label which will inform the consumers how much added sugars are in processed foods. Manufacturers will be required to use this label by July 26, 2018.
Rho Theta, the local chapter of Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society at Mt. Hood Community College, chose to do a project about how sugar affects everyone. Our project on sugar began with food addiction. We were curious to see how and if this was a legitimate physiological addiction. What we found was that people weren’t addicted to food itself, they were addicted to the sweetness in artificial and refined sugars. Our goal is to start a petition so that we can keep pressure on the FDA to make sure that the label will still be placed in effect by 2018.
Please sign this petition to help keep pressure on the FDA to make sure the new food label will be in effect.
