In the US, many popular ingredients or basic food like canned tomatoes etc have lots of sugar added. Eliminate the additives and you'll quickly shed the excess weight. For example it's fairly hard in PL to find canned tomatoes with added sugar or passata. If one really needs to sweeten them, he can can add sugar by himself.
I am in the UK and Heinz puts a ton of sugar in the national staple: baked beans. I incline against blaming companies but additives is definitely an exception because those ingredients often aren't evident to consumers. We know soda has a ton of sugar but baked beans...most consumers don't know.
But it is also true that if you tried to sell those products in PL, consumers wouldn't have it. Eastern Europeans tend to be very knowledgeable about the origins of food in a way that UK or US consumers aren't. The difference between bread in PL and the West being the example I hear most about.
