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The sugar that dare not speak its name...

Love sugar, always second best, love sugar different from the rest...

Dear Sir/Madam
I am Mohammed Abacha,the son of the late Nigerian Head of State who died on the 8th of June 1998.If you are conversant with world news,you will remember that, before his death, my father deposited several hundred thousand tonnes of sugar into a warehouse...

Clodfobble

05-18-2011 12:43 PM

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Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus

What do you mean by fake sugar? There are many kinds of sugars (5 and 6 carbon); are you saying one of these is more legitimate than all the others?

You can substitute the word "artificial" if you prefer.

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The sensation of sweetness caused by these compounds (the "sweetness profile") is sometimes notably different from sucrose, so they are often used in complex mixtures that achieve the most natural sweet sensation.

Spexxvet

05-18-2011 02:13 PM

Are you sure she doesn't mean corn syrup?

skysidhe

05-18-2011 02:28 PM

What happy food! Look at you all with your happy food faces. Good choices sarge.;)

I can't believe they taste less sweet than the UK counterparts.
I think they are very sweet, and the UK doesn't use high fructose corn syrup?

That's a beautiful thing, if so.

DanaC

05-18-2011 02:48 PM

K, I went googling.

Ingredients of a moonpie, according to wiki:

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Enriched wheat flour (Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic acid), Corn Syrup, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Sugar, Vegetable Shortening (Contains Partially hydrogenated Soybean Oil and/or Cottonseed Oil and/or Coconut Oil and/or Palm kernel oil and/or Palm Oil), Soy Flour, Dutched Cocoa (Processed With Alkali), Cocoa, Gelatin, Baking Soda, Lecithin, Salt, Artificial Flavoring, Sodium sulfite.[

Ingredients of a Wagon Wheel:

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Wheat Flour, Glucose Syrup, Sugar, Vegetable Fat, Whey Powder, Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder, Egg, Gelatine (E441), Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate, Soya Lecithin (E322), Salt, Citric Acid (E330), Glycerol (E422),

lookout123

05-18-2011 02:55 PM

Ingredients of a Cowpie:

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processed grass

DanaC

05-18-2011 03:08 PM

I don't think we do use that high fructose corn syrup much over here. We use glucose syrup though, which is made from grain starch, either corn or wheat or whatever.

footfootfoot

05-18-2011 03:24 PM

We only use the corn syrup because we are subsidizing the corn farmers

skysidhe

05-18-2011 03:28 PM

According to a TIME article, Glucose seems to be the better sugar.

http://www.time.com/time/health/arti...892841,00.html

footfootfoot

05-18-2011 03:33 PM

Glucose: The teacher's pet of sugar.
Mom loved Glucose the best. -- Fructose
Why can't you be more like Glucose?

DanaC

05-18-2011 04:08 PM

I think we use fructose as well, but it's not the high fructose corn syrup.