>>And, really, why is everything so sugared in the US? Now that you mention it, I remember I couldn't for the life of me understand what's sugar (or molasses, aka "HF corn syrup") doing in a sausage, beans, pickles (mislabeled as "dills"). Why, but why?
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>Because so many people like sugar. Also fat. They're in the business of selling things, not promoting what's good for you. Oddly enough, you see lots of ads claiming products are "good for you" but that's mostly just marketing.

And that brings about the fallacy of free market - that it will provide what there's demand for. It won't. The demand for not-sweetened stuff was there for ages, and it didn't vanish. But the market doesn't sell it. Probably because, for many things, consumers do what they were invented for.