Comment on Bri'ish Cuisine

• Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  where do you think sugar comes from?

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  • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sugar cane or sugar beet. It’s sucrose, a mixture of fructose and glucose.

    Not all sugar is the same.

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• ebolapie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Fruit is healthy in moderation because of all the fiber. Soda also contains primarily fructose.

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  • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Whatttt xD nothing you say makes sense lol

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    • ebolapie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Soda contains primarily fructose as a sugar, either because they put the fructose in when they made it or because the sucrose is broken down into fructose + glucose by the acid in the soda. It is not the type of sugar that makes fruit healthier than soda. Rather, it’s the other stuff in fruit. When it comes to glycemic index (how quickly the food raises your blood sugar) fiber is the hero, because it slows the absorption of the sugar by your gut, which means fruit doesn’t spike your blood sugar nearly as quickly as sugared soda. Fruit juice (which is basically fruit minus fiber) has a shockingly similar glycemic index to Coca-Cola.

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      • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        you did a great job explaining and helping get my point across.

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      • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        There’s a difference between the fructose in fruit and stuff like high fructose corn syrup. Fructose is healthy in certain doses, like when eating fruit. When eating more than the amount found naturally in fruit it becomes unhealthy.

        When you make fruit juice, you don’t juice one piece of fruit but a number of them. This way the sugar concentration becomes higher, which can be of the level of coca cola of you use enough fruit.

        But in soda usually HFCS is used and sometimes sucrose. But HFCS is also a mixture of fructose and sucrose.

        There’s a difference between eating 4 apples and drinking juice/soda with sugar content similar to 20 apples, but refined sugars instead.

        Also the sugar molecules found in fruit are not the same as the ones in corn or pure refined fructose. One is better than the other.

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