Posted on 07/29/2013 8:56:46 AM PDT by SgtHooper
The argument that sugar is a toxin depends on some technical details about the different ways the human body gets energy from different types of sugar. Today, Americans eat most of their sugar in two main forms: table sugar and high-fructose corn syrup. A molecule of table sugar, or sucrose, is a bond between one glucose molecule and one fructose moleculetwo simple sugars with the same chemical formula, but slightly different atomic structures.
A friend of my wifes worked on Aspartame when it was developedhe said the physiologic effects in the human body were not all beneficial. He would never ingest it.
Stevia is a plant product. It is very sweet tasting, however the taste and quality varies dramatically between producers. My wife uses NuNaturals NuStevia. It is available online and also at GNC.
Black Agnes
Your Home Ec teacher sounds alot like my(black) music teacher. A very strict(not mean) no nonsense teacher who demanded your respect.
I think I was the only kid in our county school system who ever got kicked out of music class for hitting the wrong keys on those children’s Xylophones. An honest mistake on her part as other mischievious chidren were intentionally plinking the wrong keys. However I wasn’t. I was earnestly trying to play correctly however I was and still am hopelessy “tone deaf” (please don’t ask me to sing)
I took Home Ec but didn’t learn anything. That wasn’t the fault of the teachers but the result of good parentage.
On cold rainy days when it was just too miserable(even for us kids) we boys would drive our mom nuts so she got us into baking cookies (a natural for kids who loved sweets) Best part was the licking the bowl clean(as well as sneaking a finger full of batter when possible) This lead to other things like cakes then frying bacon, hamburger, french fries and so on until by the time we graduated high school all of us boys could cook(not reheat) any meal we loved.
So Home Ec was an easy A and a way to meet the chicks(grins)
Divinty was one of the many specialities my granny made us during Christmas.
Of course you had to wait for the weather to be right(cold and dry or the Divinty wouldn’t set up right but instead puddle into a pancake of goo)
And we grew a large garden, so big that we wouild have the whole family together on certain days set aside to can the crops as they come into season.
From the great grand children(us)three families(my cousins), to my two living Great grand mothers, two grandmothers, our mothers and my father shucking corncorn(both on the cob and cream style) shelling peas, cooking jellies,tomatos, etc. etc.
And sharing family stories and of course the latest gossip, of course.
Alas those days are gone. I’m afraid that part of Southern life is dying as few of my nieces or nephews even know how to cook(Not REHEAT) a proper meal.
Too busy at work is the reason.
I didn’t really appreciate what we had. At least not as much as I do now that it is gone.
The world got busy and “modernized”
Mores the pity...
Eating peppers is like chopping wood: it warms you twice. ;)
How are you going to take a disaccharide and convert it into a monosaccharide in an aqueous solution? Will you be adding sucrase (enzyme) to that solution? Will sucrase break the bond between glucose and fructose in water? I don't think so. Mixing sucrose with water doesn't break the glycosidic bonds connecting the two monosacchrides, glucose and fructose. Your statement is flawed from the start.
you cannot convert the HFCS solution to crystalline sugar
Why would you want to convert HFCS into sucrose when you can simply purchase sucrose instead?
So do brain cells.
Thanks!
You’re right, my bad.
I forgot that hydrolysis doesn’t happen in water as rapidly as it does in the stomach, under acidic influence.
Nonetheless, the excess fructose in HFCS, weight per weight in comparison with sucrose is where the difference matters.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.