Comments by "" (@louistournas120) on "10 "healthy" food labels, exposed (CBC Marketplace)" video.

  1. Nature is full of "unpronounceable" chemical names.
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  2. 15:00 Carnation Breakfast Essentials. The guy says: Basically this is 9.5 teaspoons of sugar with vitamins and minerals added for good measure. The lady says : This breakfast thing has 1/3 more sugar than the Coca-Cola. The Breakfast thing is 315 mL with 38 g of sugar. The Coca-Cola is 237 mL with 27 g of sugar. Why is it 237 mL? Because the USA uses fluid ounce as a measure. 237 mL = 8 USA fl oz. I don't know why they chose 315 mL for the breakfast thing. 10.65 USA fl oz is not a round number. The lady says : Why do you market this as a healthy drink when it has 38 g of sugar per bottle? Answer: The product provides... a good breakfast choice with energy, protein and other nutrients...for the often rushed and on-the-go consumer.". Everyone is a politician these days. This is the kind of no-answer answer that I expect from a politician. Get used to it. A lot of people around us are politicians.
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  3. ​ @czarzenana5125  : "Your body can (luckily) tell the difference. Fructose needs to be converted to glucose first, sucrose as well. The result is the same though." ==glucose and fructose are monosaccarides. That means that the molecule itself is part of the sugar/alcohol family. Sucrose is a disaccaride. It is made of 2 sugar molecules and in this case, it is made of a glucose unit and a fructose unit. Our body starts by breaking it into the monosaccarides. I don't know the rest of the biochemistry.
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