Corn Syrup vs. Cane/Beet Sugar

[Andrew Wiggin]

My people call that Kool-Aid. It sucks because the Cola and Root Beer flavors no longer exist, if my memory is not failing me and they once did exist.

I remember cola and root beer flavor drink mix, but I don't think they were kool-aid brand. Something suitably generic and cheap bought in cases to feed the sweet tooths of a bunch of hippies...

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[Andrew Wiggin]

Sorry for the slight hijack, but I’m wondering if an expert can tell me how HFCS compares to honey nutrition-wise. (My own amateur research suggests that it’s nearly identical.)

The biggest difference, as far as I'm concerned, is that if I start with honey, I get mead, which is cool, but if I start with corn syrup, I get hooch, which isn't.

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[CORed]

My brain must have subconsciously known this and interpret's the taste of soda as 'bad'. Now if it would only do the same for cheezeburgerz.

And bacon. Why does something so bad for you have to taste so good?

 

[CORed]

Nope. The first step in the digestion of disaccharides (which is what I assume you meant) would be the hydrolysis to monosaccharides. Water plus sucrose --> fructose plus glucose. No hydrogen or oxygen gas is produced (if you were producing both of those gases in your stomach by some miracle, better quite smoking before you do an imitation of a huge manatee).

A diglyceride is a partially hydrolyzed fat, consisting of a molecule of glycerine with two of its hydroxyl groups esterified with long-chain fatty acids.

Yes. The correct terms for sugars would be monosaccharide and disaccharide.

 

[CORed]

There's no significant difference in nutrition between honey and HFCS. Honey has tiny amounts of a few nutrients and proteins which make it possible to detect the difference between the two.[/OT]


Has anyone here got a link to a published double blind taste test of HFCS vs. Cane Sugar. My searches turn up lot's of anecdotal allusions to such, and lot's of comments to the effect of, "the majority of double blind studies conclude that..," but I haven't found a single citation anywhere.

Honey tastes better. I believe it also has trace amounts of some vitamins, but not enough to be of much significance.

I have noticed that KFC now gives you fake honey to put on your biscuits. The ingredients are listed (to the best of my recollection) as high fructose corn syrup, honey and artificial flavor. It is labeled as "Honey sauce". Bastards.

 

[fuelair]

I remember cola and root beer flavor drink mix, but I don't think they were kool-aid brand. Something suitably generic and cheap bought in cases to feed the sweet tooths of a bunch of hippies...

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May have been others, but I just checked and: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kool-Aid

 

[Andrew Wiggin]

May have been others, but I just checked and: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kool-Aid

Cool. Or should that be 'Kool'!

I'd never googled Kool Aid before. Fruit Smack? Seems appropriate.

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[fuelair]

Cool. Or should that be 'Kool'!

I'd never googled Kool Aid before. Fruit Smack? Seems appropriate.

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Actually, I Dogpiled it ( www.dogpile.com ). I rarely Google as dogpile usually brings useful hits up faster and at the top.

 

[CORed]

I'd like to know where I can buy corn syrup cheaper than sugar.

I guess it doesn't make it to retail without costing $6/lb.

You need to buy larger quantities.