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This is pretty well-accepted as far as I'm aware — but I don't think anyone has sufficiently shown that the sugar in ice cream is less risky than sugar in, say,

by n2d4 1y ago

This is pretty well-accepted as far as I'm aware — but I don't think anyone has sufficiently shown that the sugar in ice cream is less risky than sugar in, say, fruits or yogurt (which often has 5-10x less!) AFAIK, the leading theory is also that this is because fruits have other ingredients that help process the sugar — whereas ultra-processed food like ice cream doesn't, especially if there are added sugars. You can't just freeze a soda, eat it, and then expect it to be healthy.

crazygringo 1y ago
Fruits mostly have much less sugar period, it's not really other ingredients that help process it. (Unless you over-ingest them by juicing, in which case OJ can be just as bad as Coke.) And yogurt is often full of just as much sugar as ice cream. The main theory around why ice cream doesn't show the negative effects is that the sugar is mostly trapped in a fat matrix that takes a long time to break apart and therefore to digest and release the sugars. So there's very little harmful sugar spike in the blood, and the carb intake surprisingly becomes more akin to e.g. slow-digesting unprocessed whole grains (obviously without benefits of fiber or other whole-grain nutrients). Of course it's also very different if we're talking about plain chocolate ice cream, vs filled with ribbons of caramel and chocolate-coated candy pieces, which will produce sugar spikes. And of course it's also not accounting for overeating, ice cream or not. If you eat calories you don't need, it's going to make you fat no matter whether it's ice cream or something else.
CrimsonCape 1y ago
I put 3 sugar cubes in my coffee every day. So I divide the weight of the box of sugar cubes and it results in 1 sugar cube = 3.5 grams. Thats 10.8 grams per 12 oz of coffee. A 12oz can of Dr. Pepper soda has 40 grams of sugar. Divided by my aforementioned mass per cube, it yields 11 sugar cubes. Either I messed up the math or soda is crazy; i can't imagine munching down 11 sugar cubes in one sitting. TLDR: 12oz coffee: 10.8 g sugar, 3 cubes 12oz soda: 40g sugar, 11 cubes

by n2d4 1y ago

crazygringo 1y ago

Fruits mostly have much less sugar period, it's not really other ingredients that help process it. (Unless you over-ingest them by juicing, in which case OJ can be just as bad as Coke.) And yogurt is often full of just as much sugar as ice cream. The main theory around why ice cream doesn't show the negative effects is that the sugar is mostly trapped in a fat matrix that takes a long time to break apart and therefore to digest and release the sugars. So there's very little harmful sugar spike in the blood, and the carb intake surprisingly becomes more akin to e.g. slow-digesting unprocessed whole grains (obviously without benefits of fiber or other whole-grain nutrients). Of course it's also very different if we're talking about plain chocolate ice cream, vs filled with ribbons of caramel and chocolate-coated candy pieces, which will produce sugar spikes. And of course it's also not accounting for overeating, ice cream or not. If you eat calories you don't need, it's going to make you fat no matter whether it's ice cream or something else.

CrimsonCape 1y ago

I put 3 sugar cubes in my coffee every day. So I divide the weight of the box of sugar cubes and it results in 1 sugar cube = 3.5 grams. Thats 10.8 grams per 12 oz of coffee. A 12oz can of Dr. Pepper soda has 40 grams of sugar. Divided by my aforementioned mass per cube, it yields 11 sugar cubes. Either I messed up the math or soda is crazy; i can't imagine munching down 11 sugar cubes in one sitting. TLDR: 12oz coffee: 10.8 g sugar, 3 cubes 12oz soda: 40g sugar, 11 cubes