I tend to think it's one thing to have sugar in products that should have sugar, and another when it's snuck into what was perfectly fine without it. I mean, I have a can of corn that has added sugar. Why does corn need added sugar? It IS sugar. Or the fact that this last Thanksgiving we ended up having to make cornbread for stuffing from scratch because every cornbread MIX we tried was so sweet that it basically amounted to corn muffins. Fine if I was making muffins, but way too sweet for a savory stuffing. And last week, I was looking for a salad dressing and found that even organic Ranch or Blue Cheese had sugar and/or soybean oil in it.

Sugar in my chocolate? You betcha. I want it there! Sugar in my chicken salad, however, feels kind of superfluous.