Comment on Bri'ish Cuisine
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 day agoIt’s made with ~11 cubes of sugar for a single portion.
You won’t belive how much sugar is in fruit
health.clevelandclinic.org/fruits-high-in-sugar
Grams of sugar in one large orange: 17.2.
The internet says one sugar cube is 4 grams. Let’s be kind to me and round down the cubes of sugar to 10 and round up the sugar in the orange to 20.
Basically, if you made duck a la orange with 2 oranges, you’d be using the same amount of sugar.
It’s not that divorced from the reality of the situation expected in kitchens.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
The sugar in fruit is fructose and is healthy, compared to refined sugars.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
where do you think sugar comes from?
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
Sugar cane or sugar beet. It’s sucrose, a mixture of fructose and glucose.
Not all sugar is the same.
ebolapie@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Fruit is healthy in moderation because of all the fiber. Soda also contains primarily fructose.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 hours ago
Whatttt xD nothing you say makes sense lol
ebolapie@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Soda contains primarily fructose as a sugar, either because they put the fructose in when they made it or because the sucrose is broken down into fructose + glucose by the acid in the soda. It is not the type of sugar that makes fruit healthier than soda. Rather, it’s the other stuff in fruit. When it comes to glycemic index (how quickly the food raises your blood sugar) fiber is the hero, because it slows the absorption of the sugar by your gut, which means fruit doesn’t spike your blood sugar nearly as quickly as sugared soda. Fruit juice (which is basically fruit minus fiber) has a shockingly similar glycemic index to Coca-Cola.