On food and cooking the science and lore of the kitchen ( PDFDrive ) 1243

of this sugar intake comes not from candies and confections, but from soft drinks Significant amounts of sugar also find their way into most processed foods, including many savory sauces, dressings, meats, and baked goods The total sugar content in processed foods is often unclear from the ingredients list, where different sugars can be listed separately as sucrose, dextrose, levulose, fructose, corn syrup, high-fructose corn syrup, etc Food Words: Caramel Our word for browned sugar may come from its resemblance in color to straw Caramel first appears in French in the 17th century as a borrowing via Spanish from the Portuguese caramel, which meant both the elongated sugar loaf and “icicle,” perhaps because they shared a similar shape and sparkly appearance The Portuguese in turn seems to derive from the Latin calamus, meaning “reed.” The Gr e e k kalamos meant “straw,” and the original Indo-European root meant “grass.” The Italian calamari, “squid,” comes from the same root! Perhaps the common element is the brown color of dry grass, partly refined sugar, cooked sugar syrup, and camouflaging squid skin Sugars and Tooth Decay It has been common knowledge for thousands of years that sweet foods encourage tooth decay In the Greek book of Problems attributed to Aristotle, the question is asked, “Why do figs, which are soft and sweet, destroy the teeth?” Nearly 2,000 years later, as sugar cane was being established in the West Indies, a German visitor to the English court named Paul Hentzner described Queen Elizabeth I as she appeared in 1598: Next came the Queen, in the Sixty-fifth Year of her Age, as we were told, very ... the common element is the brown color of dry grass, partly refined sugar, cooked sugar syrup, and camouflaging squid skin Sugars and Tooth Decay It has been common knowledge for thousands of years that sweet... knowledge for thousands of years that sweet foods encourage tooth decay In the Greek book of Problems attributed to Aristotle, the question is asked, “Why do figs, which are soft and sweet, destroy the teeth?” Nearly.. .the Latin calamus, meaning “reed.” The Gr e e k kalamos meant “straw,” and the original Indo-European root meant “grass.” The Italian calamari, “squid,” comes from the same root! Perhaps the