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Should junk food be taxed?

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  • WinoGelato
    WinoGelato Posts: 13,454 Member
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    The irony of this is that I have a chemistry degree and used to teach physical science, chemistry and physics so I'm eager to learn how adding sugar to something is a chemical reaction. Must be my pesky belief system getting in the way of facts again.
  • singingflutelady
    singingflutelady Posts: 8,736 Member
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    jen_mccusker wrote: »
    So you take sugar from a apple say then you at it to processed food once you start heating process it a chemical reaction which then turns to a new substance which is a new compound. Which means all the added sugar which merge with other things in the food when heat has turned into something else. So it hasn't kept its natural form or state of what it was first put in as

    Um no.
  • chocolate_owl
    chocolate_owl Posts: 1,695 Member
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    Wait, this turned from a taxing-the-evil-sugar thread to a regular sugar-is-evil thread? But it's only Wednesday...
  • ccrdragon
    ccrdragon Posts: 3,370 Member
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    jen_mccusker wrote: »
    So you take sugar from a apple say then you at it to processed food once you start heating process it a chemical reaction which then turns to a new substance which is a new compound. Which means all the added sugar which merge with other things in the food when heat has turned into something else. So it hasn't kept its natural form or state of what it was first put in as

    if this was actually true it would defeat the whole reason to add sugar to any food item - i.e. to make it more palatable to the human tongue. Since the food is still sweet after it is heated, the SUGAR is still there in it's natural form (or else you wouldn't be able to taste it).
  • singingflutelady
    singingflutelady Posts: 8,736 Member
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    jen_mccusker wrote: »
    Erm yes

    Where are you getting this info from?
  • WinoGelato
    WinoGelato Posts: 13,454 Member
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    jen_mccusker wrote: »
    WinoGelato wrote: »
    The irony of this is that I have a chemistry degree and used to teach physical science, chemistry and physics so I'm eager to learn how adding sugar to something is a chemical reaction. Must be my pesky belief system getting in the way of facts again.

    If this is true you can't argue with me at all!!!!!

    If what is true? I didn't quite follow your explanation of a chemical reaction above. Can you try again?

    First, why is the sugar extracted from the apple?
    Second, you said then it is added to a processed food. What processed food? And why is it added again?
    Then you said you start the heating process and that is a chemical reaction - perhaps. Depends on how much it is heated, if the molecules undergo a chemical change. Simply applying heat to something is not a chemical reaction.
    You are correct that a chemical reaction results in a new compound, but we haven't established that a chem rxn took place.

  • singingflutelady
    singingflutelady Posts: 8,736 Member
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    That's not how it works at all
  • bpetrosky
    bpetrosky Posts: 3,911 Member
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    lemurcat12 wrote: »
    jen_mccusker wrote: »
    When you take one sugar and add it to something else like food. It's a chemical reaction as it cannot go back to its natural state.

    So what chemical reaction occurs when you add some sugar to steel cut oats? How does this compare to the chemical reaction that occurs when you slice up a banana and add it to the oats?

    Something like this apparently:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODf_sPexS2Q
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
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    Wow...this got derpy!

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  • singingflutelady
    singingflutelady Posts: 8,736 Member
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    jen_mccusker wrote: »
    All you need to do is Google and if you don't get it. I forgive you all :D

    Actually I recommend scientific papers and text books over Google.
  • ccrdragon
    ccrdragon Posts: 3,370 Member
    edited September 2016
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    jen_mccusker wrote: »
    Omg any heating process between chemicals makes a reaction doesn't matter how high the heat

    again, wrong! know what happens when you light C4 on fire (you can google that too). I'll give you a hint, it doesn't explode.

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