• TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    22 hours ago

    I think this dish is better than it’s made out to be.

    It’s made with ~11 cubes of sugar for a single portion. She just made awful rice with candy.

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      17 hours ago

      It’s made with ~11 cubes of sugar for a single portion.

      You won’t belive how much sugar is in fruit

      https://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.

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          11 hours ago

          Fruit is healthy in moderation because of all the fiber. Soda also contains primarily fructose.

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              9 hours ago

              Soda contains primarily fructose as a sugar, either because they put the fructose in when they made it via high fructose corn syrup or because the sucrose (from cane sugar) 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.

              Sorry for all the parentheticals. I am not a very good writer.