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...natural foods movement has picked up steam in recent years, maple syrup has become, along with honey, an increasingly attractive alternative to processed cane sugar. If you're wondering where Aunt Jemima or Log Cabin syrup fit into this picture - these common table products are not real maple syrup. The tagline for Log Cabin, which is made with sugar, is "Authentic Maple Tasting Syrup for over 120 years." This careful wording is intentional and crafted to avoid false advertising claims. (Most brands of maple-flavored pancake toppings are made with corn syrup...
...weeks starting April 20, supermarkets will be stocked with Pepsi and Mountain Dew Throwback. This limited-edition retro soda will be made with “real sugar” to give consumers a taste of the flavor of the 60s and 70s, before high-fructose corn syrup replaced cane sugar in 1984. From the way websites have pounced on this bit of pop trivia, you’d think this soda is the solution to obesity. However, the truth is that while the halo of “pure cane sugar” may help Americans sleep at night...
...greedy bankers are tarnishing our image," says Marie-Claire Favre between sips of her cappuccino in a Lausanne cafe. Standing in front of UBS's Lausanne office, Bernard Thevenoz can't hide his outrage. "Those thugs, they are dragging our country through the mud," the octogenarian hisses, waving his cane towards the palatial building. "How can we ever regain our dignity...
...market, once a purely upscale domain, has been democratized. São Paulo wine retailer Expand has seen sales of its mid-priced bottles jump 25% each of the past few years, and it has opened new stores in provincial cities like Fortaleza, where beer and cachaça (cane liquor) were once the only tipples. Expand's owner, Otávio Piva de Albuquerque, says he spends as much time helping secretaries find $12 Concha y Toros as he does stockbrokers $75 Chambertins. "So many things Brazilians used to think of as unessential," he says, "are suddenly part...
...concern. If there really were a second genesis on Mars, "contamination by even one Earth bacterium may be a serious issue of environmental ethics," McKay writes. We only have to look back at the damage that invasive species have inflicted on virgin territory on our planet, like the infamous cane toads that ravaged Australia, to know what Earth bacteria could do on an alien surface. (See pictures of Mars' surface patterns...