Sucrose

“Of all the foods consumed today, refined sugar is considered to be one of the most harmful”, says macrobiotics.com. Most people are somewhat aware of how much soda they drink or how many calories they intake, but they have never thought about much sugar they eat. The average American eats approximately 130 pounds of sugar per year. While some don’t even realize that eating too much sugar is something that they daily partake in, it is a terrible habit that needs to be broken! It isn’t actually…

Cyclodextrins are enzymatically modified starches composed of glycopynanose units which form a ring of either six (α-cyclodextrin), seven (β-cyclodextrin) or eight (γ-cyclodextrins) units. Characteristics of β-cyclodextrins include: • Glucose unit: 07 • Molecular weight: 1135 • Solubility =1.85g/100ml • Cavity diameter = 6.4 Ǻ • Diameter of outer periphery = 15.4 Ǻ • Approx. volume of cavity = 262 (Ǻ)3 Cyclodextrins have a cylindrical shape with central axial cavity and resembles the shape of a…

Americans consume close to 50 billion liters of soda per year, which is equal to 216 liters or about 57 gallons per person. In other words the consumption of soda is staggering; putting a warning label on soda we could bring that number down. Sugary drinks should have warning labels, because it is addicting and can wreck your body. First of all, soda can wreck people’s bodies. Soda can turn teeth yellow, turn livers into a grotesque lump of scar tissue, it can lead to obesity, heart disease, and…

I strongly believe that chocolate milk shouldn’t be served in schools. I believe this because there is too much sugar. Also, chocolate milk can lead to long and short term health problems. Jamie Oliver says that chocolate milk is liquid candy. Schools should be banned from serving chocolate milk. Ann Cooper, the head of nutrition services for the Boulder Valley School District in Louisville, Colorado says,“Chocolate milk is soda dressed up.” This is true because of the sugar content. In the…

Based on the data collected in this lab, it can be concluded that double-stuffed Oreos do not contain double the amount of filling as regular Oreos. In the experiment, the mass and height of each entire Oreo was measured and recorded. Then, the cookie was split apart and the cream filling was scraped off. The remaining Oreo components, the two cookie pieces, were measured for mass and height again. By subtracting the cookie measurements from the Oreo measurements, we found the height and mass of…

The article's " How Candy Conquered America" by Lauren Tarshis and " This Cupcake is Trying to Hurt You" by Lauren Tarshis and Kristen Lewis both Incorporated information on how people can live a better life. In the first article, Tarshis says “ Many scientists believed that candy was just as healthful as steak and potatoes or fish and broccoli.” “ Candy companies wanted people to believe this too.” The candy companies did this by fake advertising. For example “Milky Way suggested that each bar…

Imperial Sugar Imperial Sugar was known to be one of the largest sugar processing plants in the United States. The company employed over four hundred employees and contractors at its plant located In Port Wentworth, Georgia, just outside of Savannah. The facility covered over one hundred acres of land and is bordered by a river. The facility used conveyors to transport stored sugar from silos to the necessary areas throughout the plant. The Port Wentworth plant takes raw sugar cane and creates…

“Save earth, it’s the only planet with chocolate” (Anderson’s Candy Shop). This situation might not be amazing though; Americans eat 130 pounds of sugar every year per person on average. Inconsequential amount of sugar aren't terrible for you, but the enormous amount that Americans are eating can be extremely harmful. an abundance drinks have more sugar than people should have in an entire day.Amazingly American’s ideas about sweets have changed since the 1800s. Early Americans had exceedingly…

Diet Coke is just as harmful as regular coke, maybe even more. 10 minutes from drinking diet coke your taste buds get tricked and start attacking the enamel on your teeth. The phosphoric acid attacks your enamel on your teeth which erodes the enamel off your teeth. After 20 minutes of drinking diet coke It can turn on fat storage mode. Regular coke does the same thing with insulin which also sends your body into fat storage mode. 40 minutes can cause addiction. Diet Coke has a deadly combination…

Ramune has to be one of the coolest and most unique soft drinks that I have ever seen. My kids had been dying to try this stuff ever since they had come across it on J-Box, the popular Japanese import webshop. Ramune is incredibly popular in it's native Japan, and now it looks like the fun is beginning to spread here in the States. To open a bottle of Ramune, you have to remove the top, pop out this little plastic plunger from it's casing, and then use the plunger to pop out a marble that seals…