Sticky juice drips down the chin as teeth sink into a Sumo Citrus, feeling more like candy than a morning snack. This syrupy experience reflects a broader agricultural shift. Grocery-store fruits now undergo intense selective breeding, sacrificing tart, wild flavors for purest, unadulterated sugars.
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Fruit Is Too Sweet
It’s like candy now—for better or for worse.
By Ellen Cushing
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Zookeepers were feeding the animals commercial fruit in an attempt to mimic the diet they’d have in the wild, and it was so high in sugar that it was rotting their little teeth. Humans had manipulated nature to such a degree that nature could not keep up.
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"The American grocery-store produce aisle is sweeter than it has ever been, crammed full of fruit a lot like the Sumo, created for an eating public that has repeatedly demonstrated it wants sweet, and will pay for it."
“Sweetness without acid is boring,” she told me. “It’s insipid.” There’s a reason 2-year-olds and red pandas love it. “It’s just kind of one-note—and not that interesting,” // www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
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Interessant - das Phänomen habe ich bei uns auch schon beobachtet. Vieles wird süßer und der eigentliche Geschmack schwächer.