I’d be surprised if that were the case. The beets I buy are ugly sons of bitches that look like dirty softballs or oversized, rounder red potatoes, about the size of a fist. Like these, Sold without the greens. (Not any of the “pretty” varieties.) I can’t imagine they’ve been bred for prettiness. But the main thing is I assumed sugar beets to also be red, with the color being washed out of them or something in the processing.
Well, I won’t say I was /disappointed/ with the factual answers, but it wasn’t posted in GD by accident… (OP)
Fattening. I haven’t heard that word in over 50 years. I thought it had moved on.
Here in Mexico, the number one cause of mortality is diabetes. Cancer wins in the USA. Before Coke, everyone here drank aqua naturales. Or, squeezed fruit with water.
Thanks to the marketing of Coke, it has replaced the aqua naturales. And you can see people carrying a 2 liter bottle of Coke to have at lunch time.
Whether it is HFCS or cane sugar, it is lethal here.
It could be the sugar, or nearly every other single thing in the Mexican diet that is metabolized as sugar. Beans; maize in its many, many forms; bread; aguas frescas; Coca Cola; rice. That’s a really high carb diet.
Very good point.
And begs an interesting question. When did diabetes become #1? Before or after the introduction of Coke.
I don’t know the answer, but I know someone who is a researcher.
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Cook’s Illustrated has done multiple blind taste tests and there is no evidence that anybody can tell the difference between the two when baking. When used raw (like in eggnog) there was a slight edge for vanilla but this is possibly because it has more alcohol.
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Studies have shown that there’s no difference between conventional sucrose and HFCS in terms of its effect on blood glucose, insulin, leptin, ghrelin, or satiety:
Minnesota #1 by far. Then Idaho and Michigan. Then basically noise from the handful of other states that produce sugar beets. (Although Western Oregon grows a lot of them for seed. While the production sugar beet fields in Eastern Oregon look impressively large, that’s nothing compared to the top three states.)
I’m not familiar with aqua naturales. Is that the same as aguas frescas? If so, I think to paint them as “squeezed fruit with water” is a bit off. I can’t drink horchatas, tamarindos, jamaicas, etc because they are crazy sweet. Even drinks like Agua de melon have a ton of added sugar.
I grew up on the border. Maybe things were different to the south.
(googling it…)
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‘Mexican coke’ sounds like what we get here in the UK, sweetened with cane sugar. Sometimes I’m able to get hold of cans of US coke, which taste noticably sweeter, and a bit like vanilla.
And beer, and liquor…