Continuing on the theme of 'the future is here' - something I want now and certainly in the near future is openness about using sugar, at least, as an additive in food from cafes and restaurants.
I'm doing my bit to inform cafes and restaurants about the - not sure what word to use here - for me personally it is "evil", but you know! Could be too melodramatic? but the evil of unnecessarily added sugar to fish, seafood and meat in particular. One day I hope that this information - that sugar can be a very bad additive to those of us with dysfunctional blood glucose/hormonal systems and too-sick fat cells, is common place.
And right now - That cafes and restaurants owe us at least to correctly list ingredients on their menus! Is my feeling. Some poor working-holiday waitress from the US got a little lecture from me yesterday when I ordered mussels with what I thought was a garlic, butter, lemon and chilli sauce, and got something that had so much sugar in it I couldn't believe it. ie it was sweet chilli sauce. Very sugary sweet chilli sauce. So unnecessary! So bad for my already messed up liver! (I want my sick fat cells to get better, so I can get better. And as y'all know - they don't need a big dose of sucrose and fructose...)
I ate it as much as I could with as little of the sugar-laden sauce on them as possible, as I eat sea food as a way to get seriously-deficient-in-NZ otherwise nutrients (zinc, iodine, selenium that is in the sea, but not much if at all in our soil), and seafood is not cheap!
I told the poor waitress that could she please tell the cook that I believe he has changed to a new brand of chilli sauce (I have been to that restaurant more than a few times and ordered mussels - it is one of the few food items I can and need to eat there). And that for a third of the country - that brand will damage our health. Too much sugar when sugar is not a necessary ingredient. ("It's a cheap flavour enhancer," says Herr Svea when I am practically weeping saying, "Why why why sugar added to meat and fish????")
Folks like me need to do this? Be out there. I think so. With my journalist background I am happy to trot out stats like that, that are of course - correct. Will it make a difference? Or just make the waiters and cooks run out the back when they see me coming? Hmmmm....