Comments by "EebstertheGreat" (@EebstertheGreat) on "DoubleSpeak, How to Lie without Lying" video.
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7:26 if you start calling HFCS "sugar" on labels, that would be misleading. Many health-conscious people do not want HFCS and sugar being confused, because they believe (supported by some scientific evidence) that sweeteners high in fructose are meaningfully nutritionally different from pure sucrose. Often they specifically want to avoid HFCS in favor of sugar. And that is true for many of the other sweeteners you listed, like diastatic malt (which has a very different flavor from sucrose and triggers some allergies), ethyl maltol (which is not a sugar in any sense, is far more expensive than sucrose, does not taste like sucrose, and is not metabolized as a sugar), lactose (which triggers insensitivity in most people and does not taste like sucrose), and "honey" (yes, you are trying to argue that correctly labeling honey and fruit juice is "doublespeak," and we should call them "sugar" instead). The vast majority of other terms in that cloud contain the word "sugar" or "syrup." Are you really trying to argue that "beet sugar" is misleading? Two are also misspelled: "distatic malt" (missing an a) and "diatase" (missing an s), which are not sugars anyway.
Oh, and the best part is that the total sugar content is ON THE NUTRITION FACTS, with a quantity. Reading the list of ingredients is never how you figure out the nutritional content of a food. This is just the lowest-effort claim I have ever seen. There are tons of real problems with nutrition labels, why would you choose this?
BTW, I find it funny that your script says "organic evaporated cane juice," because you read that was a thing, but you could not find a single actual example on a label anywhere, so you showed a label that just says "evaporated cane juice" (which is the only legit misnomer on the list btw). You have to hype up your already hyped-up claims, and even when you can't support them, you don't edit your script but just plow forward.
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