@talkb1nary Ditto! I had the exact same question when the founder of: http://aboutsugarwise.com/ came up with this same idea (an app to tell you the sugar content).
@kristofertm@joantune@talkb1nary this isn't actually true at all. It's the exact same chemical makeup. Once in a processed food, it is also in the same form. Please go watch this:
@samschooler@joantune@talkb1nary OK. Give me 90 minutes...
Not saying you're wrong, I'm not claiming to be super well read in this department, but a google search provides plenty of arguments against what you're saying. Common sense tells me to pick something to eat with natural occurring sugar rather than something with a bunch of HFCS added to it, even if they both items have the same amount of sugar
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@talkb1nary Just thought I'd chime in on the "natural sugar" vs "added sugar" conversation, as I recently did a couple of minutes of research after seeing "sugar is sugar" elsewhere - there is some compelling evidence this is NOT true. A key differentiation is that much "natural occurring" sugar is bound in fiber, which allows the body to absorb this sugar gradually - there looks to be lot's of promising research here, but as I said I only spent a couple of minutes. Perhaps even more interesting is that fructose and glucose seem to interact very differently during / after digestion. I think it's like many complex biological systems - we understand their function (often entirely) in terms of a specific 1:1 interaction, but often find evidence there are cascading/synergistic effects that we don't understand (or haven't attempted to fully quantify). It's in many ways similar to the way we can fully understand and explain localized weather events, but why an accurate global climate model is still elusive. Anyway, here's the study from Nature about fructose vs glucose - while it is an animal study, you can find several human studies that show differing negative effects in terms of insulin resistance and decreased comparative activity in neural "reward" pathways. http://www.nature.com/articles/s... Nothing ironclad, but plenty of reason to doubt all sugar is created (or refined?) equally!
This is another great example of what an app should be. It solves one problem extremely well. Clean and simple.
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Awesome. I'm always looking at various foods and their sugar contents and it's always so surprising to me how much they have. While a teaspoon is a pretty universal measurement, I suggest adding sugar cubes, which can be shocking. For example, a can of Coca-Cola is TEN sugar cubes. Imagine just eating 10 in one sitting, gross.
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According to your app store reviews, the app doesn't work in Canada :(
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