Talk:Sugar

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Willful and Deliberate Deception in reported Data

The footnote states "The carbohydrate figure is calculated in the USDA database and does not always correspond to the sum of the sugars, the starch, and the dietary fiber."

The problem with this is that the data still doesnt add up and is stilltherefore clearly erroneous, completely desyroying all reasonable credibillity of all the data in the table.

I would submit that if it doesnt add up the whole table should be outright removed from wikipedia in any event becauswle it clearly, by admission of the footnote, isn't factual data in any event regardless of the claimed source, unless there is a reasonable explanation as to exactly why the data is miscalculated in the table as to show that the miscalculation was not reasonably avoidable and was not intended by any party to be a willful and deliberate deception. Otherwise, I would be in favor of removing the entire table as clearly false data as to maintain a factual article and ensure strict WP:NPOV adherance. 2600:8804:6F0F:6D00:10C4:EC80:B6EF:5F7E (talk) 18:32, 27 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

GA Reassessment

Sugar

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Result: Issues seem fixed. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 14:48, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Many sections are underdeveloped, such as most of the level 3 headings in "Health effects", "Consumption" and "Society and culture". There is also some uncited text. Z1720 (talk) 22:07, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There seems to be very little wrong with this article really. The supposedly underdeveloped subsections within 'Health', for example, are very minor sub-aspects of the topic, i.e.

Sugar

Health effects

Obesity and metabolic syndrome --- main article Diet and obesity#Sugar consumption - it seems entirely apposite that this subsubsection is a brief paragraph.

As for uncited text, it's only a few items within lists, all of which are at least partially covered by sources at the heads of those lists. This does seem to be an extremely thin ground for GAR; there are GAs with order-of-magnitude worse problems than this one. I've removed or cited all the uncited claims that I found. I believe the article is now in a good state. Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:15, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Missing page

Can someone add coarse sugar or zarame or is it already there? 110.160.100.97 (talk) 23:56, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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