Posted on 05/30/2019 11:03:27 AM PDT by Red Badger
At least the cane sugar started out as sugar..............
I’ve read that many major pizza chains add sugar to their pizza dough. Why? Sugar can help in the baking process. But studies have shown that kids will eat more pizza when the crust (and sauce) is sweeter.
No, sugars, which are all bad, are not all equally bad. Fructose is more problematic than Glucose or Sucrose. Fructose is handled like Alcohol in the liver. So, if you have liver disease of any shape or kind, then Fructose will be problematic. Its mostly problematic when you are having it in large doses. If you are bingeing on fruit or you are bingeing on fruity alcoholic sugary drinks even rum and Cokes (Coke is made with high fructose corn syrup) then your liver has a real tough time getting rid of the alcohol while its also getting rid of the Fructose. If the same drink was made with Mexican Coke which is made with sugar, than your liver would handle the alcohol while your body stores or burns the sucrose.
Fructose is a large cause of Alzheimer’s, Diabetes, and obesity. Carbs in general can cause all these things. But the large increase in our diet of Fructose is closely correlated with the increase of these diseases.
Exactly. Too many calories in too small a package...........
And rum is made from Sugar Cane!...................
Browns quicker...............
My understanding is that the Fructose and Sucrose is split in the HFCS where it’s not split in table Sugar. Similar to the claim they make about honey. Being pre-split makes it’s impact larger on the body.
In the time since that study, sugar consumption overall (including that of HFCS) has declined, even as obesity rates have continued to climb.
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Thanks for poking a stick at people who make decisions based on emotions rather than facts.
The problem with high-fructose corn syrup is that food products that use it are intended to be addictive imo.
Umm ... that was good. I’ll have another one.
Sugar is very unhealthy for many of us. My husband has type2 diabetes. It doesn’t matter the source, it’s all bad for him. His previous doctor sent him to a dietician who put him on the pyramid diet. He gained over 20 pounds in a year. It was a disaster. Two+ years ago, we went low-carb. He’s lost 70 pounds. Thank goodness, because most of the rest of my family has developed heart disease, except for me. None of them has been willing to make the change, sadly.
Men AND women had a harder life a hundred years ago (even in the city) and we were active human beings.
Today, we sit.
That’s why I won’t eat Pizza Hut anymore. The crust is too damn sweet!!!
Sugar is something that bonds to our blood as sucrose breaks down in the duodenum into glucose and fructose, going directly into the blood stream and giving the body a rush of insulin. The body soon becomes addicted.
An interesting quote:
“Of course, this is not to say that you should feel fine eating food with HFCS in it. Just remember that it’s the nature of those products—the fact that they’re often sugary drinks and processed foods—that make them bad for you. An equivalent product made with real cane sugar is just as bad.”
correlation is not causation. The fact is that most stuff made with HFCS is garbage you shouldn’t be putting you your body.
Actually, she’s a practicing witch, seriously.
I made beer in the 1970s. The beer shop sold me barley malt syrup and recommended an amount of sugar to bring alcohol levels up to a high normal for beer. They sold and recommended corn sugar as it was a simple sugar while cane sugar was a complex sugar and the yeast grown on complex sugars would impart an unwelcome taste as part of the natural break down during fermentation. I opted for a third process I read about. Dissolve the cane sugar in a small amount of hot water and a ad an amount of lemon juice whose acids would break down the compound sugar into multiple simple sugars. The flavor of the beer I made in this process was very good. I never did make enough beer in one batch to satisfy my craving for the beer.
Yes, absolutely it is worse than sugar, which is bad enough itself.
If you occasionally want a Coke, get un Coca-Cola real, hecho en Mejico com sugar real. Available at El Mercado or the dollar store.
If I drink a soda, it’ll be diet. Sugar Free. Because I like the taste of diet sodas far better than HFCS sodas.
Alcohol is bad for you?! Who knew? :)
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