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Pure, White and Deadly is a 1972 book by John Yudkin, a British nutritionist and former Chair of Nutrition at Queen Elizabeth College, London. [1] Published in New York, it was the first publication by a scientist to anticipate the adverse health effects, especially in relation to obesity and heart disease, of the public's increased sugar consumption.
Most traditional candy features sugar as the main ingredient. Cane sugar, brown sugar, honey and maple syrup, are all examples of nutritive or caloric sweeteners, which means they provide energy ...
Apples. The original source of sweetness for many of the early settlers in the United States, the sugar from an apple comes with a healthy dose of fiber.
"The term 'corn sugar' succinctly and accurately describes what this natural ingredient is and where it comes from – corn." [22] The association, however, did not provide clarification as to a change in what the FDA already considers corn sugar, i.e., dextrose [23] or any of the other corn-derived sugars such as corn syrup and maltodextrin.
In the United States, added sugars may include sucrose or high-fructose corn syrup, both primarily composed of about half glucose and half fructose. [7] Other types of added sugar ingredients include beet and cane sugars, malt syrup, maple syrup, pancake syrup, fructose sweetener, liquid fructose, fruit juice concentrate, honey, and molasses.
Brown sugar starts off much the same as white sugar (i.e., it comes from the cane) but instead of being completely refined, some molasses is retained and mixed in with the white sugar crystals ...
In the United States, HFCS is among the sweeteners that have mostly replaced sucrose (table sugar) in the food industry. [7] [8] Factors contributing to the increased use of HFCS in food manufacturing include production quotas of domestic sugar, import tariffs on foreign sugar, and subsidies of U.S. corn, raising the price of sucrose and reducing that of HFCS, creating a manufacturing-cost ...
New alternatives to deep fryer "seed oils" are popping up, and gaining traction. Take Zero Acre, an oil company developing monounsaturated oils made from fermented sugar cane.