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The sugary foods advice is true if you're talking about refined sugars, but I recall a study showing that raisins, e.g., are much better than refined flour in t
by ballenf 3y ago
The sugary foods advice is true if you're talking about refined sugars, but I recall a study showing that raisins, e.g., are much better than refined flour in terms of damage to teeth. Despite having much higher sugar content.
Here's an article about the study: https://nutritionfacts.org/blog/raisins-and-dental-health/ https://nutritionfacts.org/blog/raisins-and-dental-health/
- jzawodn 3y agoYou know what flour turns into very, very quickly in you digestive system? Sugar.
- eropple 3y agoThe comment was about teeth, though, and flour/meal is abrasive, though. Not to the degree it was in prehistoric times--dental health went to hell during the transition to sedentarism, thought mostly to be due to milling introducing rocks etc. to the meal--but, setting aside that both are nutritionally probably not great, it stands to reason that the stuff mentioned in that blog post (mostly grain-derived) have more ways to stick to the surface of teeth and hang around to mess up mouth pH.