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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
by 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 agoHe 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 agoIndian curries do not necessarily have potato or any starch.
- seivan 12y agoThere 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 agoThey aren't "sort of are". Potato, rice, and bread all metabolize to sugar.
- seivan 12y agoUtter 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 agoIt 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.