Comment on Sweet tea

HelixDab2@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• willeypete23@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Chemistry knowledge! Sweet tea is actually a supersaturated solution. That means there more sugar in the water than could normally be held in suspension. This is achieved by heating the water so you can dissolve more solute in and then chilling it. Remember theres at least 2 diabetes worth of sugar per glass.

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  • bibli0phage@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s kind of disgusting. So southern style sweet tea is basically just tea flavored simple syrup?

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    • Smokeless7048@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yea, when my family did a trip down south, i asked for some sweet tea, thinking it was like Brisk, but i couldnt believe how sweet it was.

      if your drink is sweeter than pop, its… scary.

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    • bustrpoindextr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes, yes it is. To be fair, what do you think soda is though?

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      • GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        According to Wikipedia:

        it is not unusual to find sweet tea with a sugar level as high as 22 degrees Brix, or 22 g per 100 g of liquid, a level twice that of Coca-Cola."

        Coca-Cola already has a disgusting amount of sugar. The mere idea of this makes me queasy.

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    • scottywh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Depends on who makes it… McDonald’s, 7-11, and the like use about twice the amount of sugar that’s really necessary and it does not make it better.

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  • TIEPilot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Masshole that lives in the south I have no idea how everyone I know isn’t on insulin. Sweet tea is an abomination of sugar.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      When I lived in the south, everyone I knew was

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      • eestileib@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Indeed, give em a few years.

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  • Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Where did you get that? It would be like honey if that was correct. Also, that is not called suspension but solution, since the particles dissolve (unlike fat in milk, but that is an emulsion since the fat is a liquid).

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  • bleistift2@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I highly doubt that, since any shock or impurity would cause a supersaturated solution to separate into a solution and the excess sugar.

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  • minorsecond@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I thought a supersaturated solution could easily be brought out of supersaturation by something like sticking a spoon in it? Am I misremembering?

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    • Telodzrum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It depends on the nature of the solution.

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• grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You’re technically correct, but completely missing the point that folks want to be able to actually drink it a reasonably short time after it’s been served.

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  • Yearly1845@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • bustrpoindextr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well it kinda is with the ice in there. Then by the time the ice is gone, the tea is watered down and you’re basically just drinking sugar water

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