Dates contain huge amounts of sugar and are paleo (yumm!), I believe
something like 5 - 10grams of sugar in a regular sized date. They used
to use date syrup before the days of refined sucrose.
Dates make me temporarily bloated but no ill effects otherwise, whereas
a dessert containing refined sucrose makes me feel kind of sick. Of
course the dessert contains other things that are paleo-naughty
including wheat, cream, etc.
--Richard (Tarzana)
Todd Moody wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Ray Audette wrote:
>
> But the refined sugar does contain things that in nature
> would not be eaten. Proteins from the source plant do
> find their way into the final product (refining them out
> completely would be prohibitedly expensive. This would
> include grass proteins from the sugar cane, or beet
> proteins from sugar beet.
>
> Since sugar cane can be chewed raw for its sugary sweetness, this
> particular protein must be considered "paleo". The grass is not
> completely chewed and swallowed, of course, but it is chewed
> enough so that a small amount of protein would be ingested. It
> is rather comparable to drinking tea, which you allow. Brewing
> the tea certainly leeches some proteins into your teacup, but
> nobody ever actually ate tea leaves. They may have chewed them,
> however.
>
> Of course, sugar in this concentration would never be
> found in nature. Even the sweetest fruits contain highly
> diluted sugars - that's why we don't extract sugars from
> them except in the form of fruit-juice concentrates.
>
> In what concentration, as in a can of Pepsi or a serving of
> bacon? We were speaking of the latter. A serving of bacon
> contains less than a gram of sugar. An orange contains over five
> grams of sucrose. If you were thinking of something like the
> Pepsi, which has about 35g of sugar, then I agree that it is
> difficult to find this concentration in nature.
>
> Thanks to government policy in the U.S., most food
> products are sweetened with corn fructose.
>
> True, but this is not true of bacon, which is not "sweetened"
> but cured with sugar.
>
> Todd Moody
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