Bread is the staple food in the west, so westerners consume a lot of bread. Almost no one in China accepts bread as the staple food from beginning to end, so for these people, bread is just a dietary adjustment, belonging to snacks, mainly consumed in breakfast, afternoon tea and other links, which leads to the popularity of fancy bread with high sweetness. At first, many bakeries insisted on making some staple bread, and finally they had to bow to Japanese bread or make some localized strange bread such as red wine longan bread.
Coffee is almost the same. Less consumption, low acceptance, and the ratio of passive consumption to special motivation consumption is significant; So the purpose of many people adding sugar is not to make coffee taste better, but to make coffee taste less bad. On the other hand, China people who are used to drinking coffee either drink coffee by hand or American coffee without anything, or only add milk and light milk without sugar, but few people like to drink with sugar. It is not excluded that a few people also like Sweet Caffe, but basically sugar-free milk-free coffee, sugar-free milk-added coffee and sweetened coffee (especially flavored syrup) are three completely different drinks.
Chocolate is similar. Basically, milk chocolate, high sweet dark chocolate and low sweet (sugar-free) dark chocolate are actually three things. Because of the low consumption, few consumers will consume dark chocolate, especially a high proportion of single-source chocolate, on the premise of tasting different beans from different places. Therefore, the dark chocolate consumed by China people is generally not so dark, while milk chocolate is the absolute mainstream; Not to mention that many people in China are not sensitive to the low proportion and poor quality of cocoa in chocolate, and even to the use of cocoa butter and vegetable oil. The essence of consuming chocolate is to eat some candy. In the long run, candy merchants naturally like to promote those candy-type chocolates, and they have no time to promote high-quality chocolate products-because it takes time to cultivate the market, and if they can't cultivate it, they can only give up.
Similar to the deep processing of oats into commercial oatmeal with high added sugar and high fat. People who really buy those 100% oatmeal products will not deliberately add sugar, and even the yogurt mixed in may be low-fat and sugar-free. But obviously, many people consume these things to lose weight, and their motives are not pure.