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Beware, amateur science incoming! Sugar. Sugar is what makes food delicious. It comes in various shapes, most notable (for me) is potato, rice and bread. I can

• Mikeb85 12y ago
  It's so much more than just sugar/starch. After all, Goat curry is just as delicious as say, Aloo Gobi...
• bps4484 12y ago
  But sugar/starches are present in LOTS of foods. The question is: what makes indian different? Do you think it has even more sugar/starches than other foods? It doesn't seem like it to me but maybe I'm wrong.
• chengiz 12y ago
  This is utter nonsense. A very few cuisines such as Gujarati use noticeable amounts of sugar. A large majority of Indian curries at most have a small amount of sugar, not enough to be discernible to the palate, but helps blend the flavours together. It is nothing like barbecue/meat sauces in the west where the second major ingredient is sugar.
  • ars 12y ago
    He means that potato, rice and bread and equivalent to sugar. They sort of are from a nutritional point of view, and I guess he means from a flavor point of view as well.
    • chengiz 12y ago
      Indian curries do not necessarily have potato or any starch.
      • seivan 12y ago
        There are indian food that contain potato. A lot of indian food contain naan (bread) and rice. Lets not kid ourselves here. It's your ignorance that assume sugar means sugar alone, but in reality bread (flour or corn) and rice is essentially sugars.
    • magic_beans 12y ago
      They aren't "sort of are". Potato, rice, and bread all metabolize to sugar.
      • seivan 12y ago
        Thanks, you get it. The person completely missunderstood it.
      • ars 12y ago
        They all have protein too, which makes them "sort of are". However the carbs in potato especially metabolize very fast to sugar. The others are slower. But even potato has protein.
  • seivan 12y ago
    Utter nonsense? You seem to misunderstand. Bread and rice turn into sugar. A lot of the sauces contain stuff that metabolite into sugar. You can feel the difference in blood sugar between an indian meal and say eggs and bacon, at least I can. Indian food has so much sugar, that it's hard to eat it and be in ketosis (where your energy supply comes from ketones in the blood) You need to do more research as you're completely missing that sugar comes in various shapes. I'd say your sentence is utter nonsense, but that be rude. My experience with Indian food comes from living in Singapore. Yours might be different.
    • chengiz 12y ago
      It is pointless to talk about bread and rice which exist in all cuisines in the world. Certainly you are welcome to prefer Indian breads but don't say that they taste good because they have sugar/starch. All breads and rice have starch: you are making a sugar-related distinction where there's none. That leaves curries/sauces. Indian curries can have starch; they often don't. You can say a potato curry tastes good because it has potato, but you cannot generalize that to say curries taste good because they have sugar/starch. Also, my experience with Indian food comes from being Indian.