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Anonymous wrote:Yes! Thank you for saying it! I also find this infuriating. The problem extends to mass market packaged baked goods and sweets. This law has turned all these items into fake sugar crap, destroying the taste. You basically have to go to artisanal bakeries, which are exempt from the low sugar laws, to get anything that tastes halfway decent.

Do you live there? I can't imagine visiting Europe and buying mass produced baked goods. Eating at bakeries and cafes (lol "artisanal bakeries") is one of my favorite things about traveling in Europe -- so much more plentiful than in the US with so many items common there that can be hard to find here. And every country has their own speciality baked goods, it's fun to try the different kinds (I'm actually a bit more fond of Danish and Austrian bakeries than French, though I wouldn't turn down a pain au chocolate from a Paris bakery right this second.

You'd be surprised by how many French bakeries are actually selling mass produced baked goods.

Anonymous wrote:We don't drink soda often, but were in Europe recently and got a pepsi. It tasted gross -- like diet pepsi, so I checked the ingredient list. It had sugar, but also sucralose. After googling a bit, I learned that the soda companies were under EU pressure to reduce the sugar in their sodas, so replaced about 20% of the sugar with sucralose. It's so disgusting! I'd rather drink 20% less soda, than have 20% of the sugar replaced with a gross chemical. Or maybe they could just make it with less sugar, and it would probably still be sweet enough? I was also excited to drink Lemon Fanta again -- it's really impossible to find in the US. But sadly, I could only find sugar-free Lemon Fanta anywhere that I looked. (It was gross, but actually not as gross as the Pepsi, because it turns out that lemon covers the sucralose taste better.)

Normally I think the EU food regulations are so much better than America, but they really dropped the ball on this one. Just say no to sucralose, Europe!!!