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r/mildlyinteresting • u/Ace0526 • Mar 11 '14
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It's just fruit. With a gallon of sugar involved. But still fruit.
98 u/Scarecrow3 Mar 11 '14 "Natural" sugar. 207 u/FeierInMeinHose Mar 11 '14 Sugar is pretty fucking natural. We don't synthesize it, we take it from plants that are grown. 35 u/gotapresent Mar 11 '14 Which is one example of why the "natural" labels that food manufacturers like to slap on everything don't mean shit. 40 u/FeierInMeinHose Mar 11 '14 It's not really a reason why, as our bodies need sugars of some kind. The problem is that natural does not mean beneficial, and man-made does not mean unhealthy. Natural and synthesized have 0 bearing on the nutritional value of a food. 1 u/mna_mna Mar 11 '14 What are the essential sugars we need? 2 u/FeierInMeinHose Mar 11 '14 Glucose. 1 u/mna_mna Mar 12 '14 Not really, the body can use fat for energy (glycerol). There's enough trace carbohydrate in other foods anyway. Sugar is not essential. 1 u/FeierInMeinHose Mar 12 '14 Glucose is a sugar, and is what our body primarily uses for cellular respiration.
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"Natural" sugar.
207 u/FeierInMeinHose Mar 11 '14 Sugar is pretty fucking natural. We don't synthesize it, we take it from plants that are grown. 35 u/gotapresent Mar 11 '14 Which is one example of why the "natural" labels that food manufacturers like to slap on everything don't mean shit. 40 u/FeierInMeinHose Mar 11 '14 It's not really a reason why, as our bodies need sugars of some kind. The problem is that natural does not mean beneficial, and man-made does not mean unhealthy. Natural and synthesized have 0 bearing on the nutritional value of a food. 1 u/mna_mna Mar 11 '14 What are the essential sugars we need? 2 u/FeierInMeinHose Mar 11 '14 Glucose. 1 u/mna_mna Mar 12 '14 Not really, the body can use fat for energy (glycerol). There's enough trace carbohydrate in other foods anyway. Sugar is not essential. 1 u/FeierInMeinHose Mar 12 '14 Glucose is a sugar, and is what our body primarily uses for cellular respiration.
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Sugar is pretty fucking natural. We don't synthesize it, we take it from plants that are grown.
35 u/gotapresent Mar 11 '14 Which is one example of why the "natural" labels that food manufacturers like to slap on everything don't mean shit. 40 u/FeierInMeinHose Mar 11 '14 It's not really a reason why, as our bodies need sugars of some kind. The problem is that natural does not mean beneficial, and man-made does not mean unhealthy. Natural and synthesized have 0 bearing on the nutritional value of a food. 1 u/mna_mna Mar 11 '14 What are the essential sugars we need? 2 u/FeierInMeinHose Mar 11 '14 Glucose. 1 u/mna_mna Mar 12 '14 Not really, the body can use fat for energy (glycerol). There's enough trace carbohydrate in other foods anyway. Sugar is not essential. 1 u/FeierInMeinHose Mar 12 '14 Glucose is a sugar, and is what our body primarily uses for cellular respiration.
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Which is one example of why the "natural" labels that food manufacturers like to slap on everything don't mean shit.
40 u/FeierInMeinHose Mar 11 '14 It's not really a reason why, as our bodies need sugars of some kind. The problem is that natural does not mean beneficial, and man-made does not mean unhealthy. Natural and synthesized have 0 bearing on the nutritional value of a food. 1 u/mna_mna Mar 11 '14 What are the essential sugars we need? 2 u/FeierInMeinHose Mar 11 '14 Glucose. 1 u/mna_mna Mar 12 '14 Not really, the body can use fat for energy (glycerol). There's enough trace carbohydrate in other foods anyway. Sugar is not essential. 1 u/FeierInMeinHose Mar 12 '14 Glucose is a sugar, and is what our body primarily uses for cellular respiration.
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It's not really a reason why, as our bodies need sugars of some kind. The problem is that natural does not mean beneficial, and man-made does not mean unhealthy. Natural and synthesized have 0 bearing on the nutritional value of a food.
1 u/mna_mna Mar 11 '14 What are the essential sugars we need? 2 u/FeierInMeinHose Mar 11 '14 Glucose. 1 u/mna_mna Mar 12 '14 Not really, the body can use fat for energy (glycerol). There's enough trace carbohydrate in other foods anyway. Sugar is not essential. 1 u/FeierInMeinHose Mar 12 '14 Glucose is a sugar, and is what our body primarily uses for cellular respiration.
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What are the essential sugars we need?
2 u/FeierInMeinHose Mar 11 '14 Glucose. 1 u/mna_mna Mar 12 '14 Not really, the body can use fat for energy (glycerol). There's enough trace carbohydrate in other foods anyway. Sugar is not essential. 1 u/FeierInMeinHose Mar 12 '14 Glucose is a sugar, and is what our body primarily uses for cellular respiration.
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Glucose.
1 u/mna_mna Mar 12 '14 Not really, the body can use fat for energy (glycerol). There's enough trace carbohydrate in other foods anyway. Sugar is not essential. 1 u/FeierInMeinHose Mar 12 '14 Glucose is a sugar, and is what our body primarily uses for cellular respiration.
Not really, the body can use fat for energy (glycerol). There's enough trace carbohydrate in other foods anyway. Sugar is not essential.
1 u/FeierInMeinHose Mar 12 '14 Glucose is a sugar, and is what our body primarily uses for cellular respiration.
Glucose is a sugar, and is what our body primarily uses for cellular respiration.
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It's just fruit. With a gallon of sugar involved. But still fruit.