Guest guest Posted October 22, 2004 Report Share Posted October 22, 2004 Hi , I think I could un-demonize "sugar" by pointing out most of those products don't have sugar in them. Corn syrup is another thing. Milk is lactose. I used to use 2 tsps of sugar to sweeten a cup of coffee. A soft drink will contain 130 kcals of corn compared to 35 kcals for sugar. In the presence of adequate glucose, fructose goes into fat. Also, sugar has to be digested and is not 100 on the GI scale. So one way they could un-demonize sugar is to not use the word sugar when talking about corn syrup. Regards. ----- Original Message ----- From: CRsupport Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 11:41 AM Subject: [ ] suga The sweetener industry is funding a campaign to un-demonize sugar. I doubtthey will succeed. An interesting tidbit from a recent WSJ article is alisting of sugar content in 8 oz servings of a few popular beverages.35 Grams Sunkist OJ35 G Ocean spray 100% juice cranberry blend27 G Pepsi27 G Coke22 G Tropicana OJ22 G Schweppes Ginger ale14 G Gatorade11 G Skim milk9.5 G Starbucks LatteObviously that last entry is a bit of a red herring since there are probablysignificant fat calories but I suggest you draw your own conclusions.... thedata is compelling enough.JR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 22, 2004 Report Share Posted October 22, 2004 Gee, that'll really clear it up for the general population... :-). Methinks you're "missing the forest for the trees". Sure there are subtle differences between the different "-ose", but there are common characteristics like high energy content/vs. low nutrition that is of interest to me. While perhaps true, arguing that some sugars are less bad does not make them good. These distinctions could even be used by the food marketers to give calorie junkies their sugar fix, with "good" sugar to make it OK. JR -----Original Message-----From: jwwright [mailto:jwwright@...]Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 12:07 PM Subject: Re: [ ] suga Hi , I think I could un-demonize "sugar" by pointing out most of those products don't have sugar in them. Corn syrup is another thing. Milk is lactose. I used to use 2 tsps of sugar to sweeten a cup of coffee. A soft drink will contain 130 kcals of corn compared to 35 kcals for sugar. In the presence of adequate glucose, fructose goes into fat. Also, sugar has to be digested and is not 100 on the GI scale. So one way they could un-demonize sugar is to not use the word sugar when talking about corn syrup. Regards. ----- Original Message ----- From: CRsupport Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 11:41 AM Subject: [ ] suga The sweetener industry is funding a campaign to un-demonize sugar. I doubtthey will succeed. An interesting tidbit from a recent WSJ article is alisting of sugar content in 8 oz servings of a few popular beverages.35 Grams Sunkist OJ35 G Ocean spray 100% juice cranberry blend27 G Pepsi27 G Coke22 G Tropicana OJ22 G Schweppes Ginger ale14 G Gatorade11 G Skim milk9.5 G Starbucks LatteObviously that last entry is a bit of a red herring since there are probablysignificant fat calories but I suggest you draw your own conclusions.... thedata is compelling enough.JR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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