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Don't beets contain a lot of sugar? Isn't that what table sugar is refined from these days?
by scurvy 10y ago
Don't beets contain a lot of sugar? Isn't that what table sugar is refined from these days?
- voidmain0001 10y agoThey must. I add them occasionally to sweeten the end product.
- maxerickson 10y agoThere are vegetable beets (really purple, starchy) and sugar beets. Sugar beets account for a significant chunk of sugar production but not a majority.
- scurvy 10y agoAh! Thanks for the clarification! Also, I screwed up when I said table sugar. I meant commercial sugar used in things. Table sugar still comes from sugar plants.
- maxerickson 10y agoIt's just sucrose, lots of table sugar does come from sugar beets.
- pyre 10y agoThere are also golden beets: http://imavex.vo.llnwd.net/o18/clients/urbanfarm/images/Beets/Burpee_Golden_Beet_Seeds.jpg http://imavex.vo.llnwd.net/o18/clients/urbanfarm/images/Beet...
- dghughes 10y agoInterestingly and somewhat related conversation-wise, for people with diabetes sweet potatoes are a better choice than regular potatoes. A sweet potato (48) has a lower glycemic index and more fiber than regular white flesh potatoes (76). Also interesting is a banana (52) should be eaten in moderation by anyone with diabetes, moderate index but less fiber? I have relatives with diabetes but needed to eat a banana for the potassium but all they were allowed was half a banana. My skinny vegetable eating family on my mom's side have type 2 diabetes mainly the women of the family. My overweight, ex-smoking, little to no exercise family on my dad's side don't have type 2 diabetes except one. And sugar doesn't cause diabetes like so many people seem to say on the Internet. You certainly crave sweets but sugar isn't the cause of type 2 diabetes. Eating lots fiber for slowing sugar absorption and for feeding your good gut flora in your microbiome seems to be the key to many things in life and health.
- throwaway8899g 10y agoIsn't type 2 diabetes among skinny people with "good" diets rare?
- dghughes 9y agoIf it is it's not for my mom's family. My grandmother had type 2 she died in the mid 1990s but she had type 2 since she was quite young not a kid but early on as an adult. She lived on a farm, ate only vegetables except the occasional roast on Sunday, walked everywhere, very little sugar, ate locally grown food, no McDonalds or fast food at all in this isolated rural area in the 1940s even 1950s and 1960s, a healthy lifestyle didn't help. One of my aunts (mother's side) died of pancreatic cancer. So it seems there is some genetic problem for pancreases (sp?) and women on my mom's side.
- rfz 9y agoAll fruit has an exorbitant amount of sugar. Carbs are carbs, regardless of whether the 'fruit is good for you.' When people talk about trying to lose weight by eating more fruit, you can guess the outcome of how well they do.