Devon, you're quite right about sugar. Fruit sugar is considered less
harmful than sucrose (refined sugar), but it isn't. Sugar is sugar. Diabetes
UK says that sugar can be taken as part of a balanced diet along with
everything else. It's advisable to have food which has natural sugar, like
fruit, but not too much, and best to avoid food which has added sugar. Much
the same way as not adding salt to keep blood pressure down. When I was
going through a fairly miserable time on several different anti-biotics
during the past few months I said to my doctor, "To cheer myself up, a
blackcurrant sundae (a pastry with very sharp blackcurrant puree, sweet
pastry and buttercream) won't affect my sugar level will it." She replied
"Not in the slightest! You just enjoy it." It would have put my blood sugar
up for a short while, but wouldn't have put me into a coma, so that was OK
as far as I was concerned. I needed an indulgence.
Tang sounds hideous. Have never come across powdered orange. The only
powdered stuff I've come across is what you add to milk to make a milk
shake. Kool-Aid is something else that is alien.
The unavailability of concentrated orange juice has nothing to do with a
shortage of oranges. It disappeared from freezer cabinets several years ago.
The supermarkets were probably just not selling enough.
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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