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American Indian, American Chinese, and American Thai food are all cooked with huge amounts of sugar. It's kind of gross when you realize how much sugar is in cu

• mikeash 10y ago
  My Chinese in-laws cook some dishes using an insane amount of ketchup, while telling me to eat less sugary foods. They were rather shocked when I pointed out that ketchup is basically sugar syrup with some tomato added.
  • kyriakos 10y ago
    There's a lot of people who have misconceptions about sugar unfortunately. E.g. my mother in law made a cake she, told me there's no sugar in it, i tried it was very sweet. She then said "yes i only used honey and sweet canned milk but no sugar". Technically she didn't cane sugar directly but if all the ingredients contain it..
    • derefr 10y ago
      A lot of people assume there's something uniquely bad for you in the structure of granulated table-sugar crystals, I think. Maybe it's because they're often found as a white powder. ;) Of course, what's "bad for you" is just that humans can metabolize sugars as easily and fully as they do. To get away from that, you either need non-sugars (aspartame et al), or sugar alcohols. Personally, I kind of wish everything with HFCS just replaced it all with xylitol or somesuch, but apparently people really like feeding leftovers to their dogs.