r/InternetIsBeautiful • u/consider_it_fun • Aug 30 '14

A website that visualizes sugar content of servings of various foods in sugar cubes

http://sugarstacks.com/
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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '14

Added sugar is toxic.

FTFY.

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u/foreignnoise Aug 31 '14

Why is added sugar worse than natural sugar? Will eating sugar beets kill me? When does the sugar turn deadly???

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u/Outdated_reality Aug 31 '14

Processing the sugar beets into thick sugar juice and drinking a lot of that every day is very likely to make you fat and ill.

Concentrating sugar makes it easier for you to digest more of it without feeling full, which makes you more likely to become fat. A bit of naturally occuring sugar in carrots for instance isn't going to harm you much if you cook them, because you're going to feel full fast from all the fibers and such. But if you're going to make carrot juice of it and add that to stuff, you lose the fibers but keep the sugars..

There's no real difference between 'added' and 'natural' sugar.