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Re:Nobody knows why ultra-processed foods are bad for you by ProfessorLayton on Wednesday November 27, 2024 @06:04PM (#42260691)
Right, but honey and agave syrup can also act as mild adhesives. I'm not sure anyone would consider them an adhesive any more than they would a stabilizer.
Re:Nobody knows why ultra-processed foods are bad for you by throwup238 on Wednesday November 27, 2024 @11:37PM (#42262489)
That’s such a silly argument I can’t even make sense of it. You’re not adding sugar, you’re adding honey or agave syrup which contain many more chemicals than just fructose and glucose. It also contains stabilizers. That’s why adding honey or agave works, but plain sugar doesn’t. They stabilize the mixture. That’s why I didn’t say they were stabilizers, but that they contained oligosaccharides that acted as stabilizers.

People use honey and agave in salad dressings for their stabilizing effect by the way, so they’re also used as stabilizers if you want to be that obtuse about it.

Re:Nobody knows why ultra-processed foods are bad for you by throwup238 on Sunday December 01, 2024 @05:43AM (#42287621)
Wut? The point wasn't that honey and agave are adhesives, it was that they don't need stabilizers when mixed with yogurt _because they already contain stabilizers_. Emphasis on the "already contain" and "stabilizer" parts.

People do use honey and agave as stabilizers in salad dressings, so obviously people consider them to be stabilizers </dumb semantic argument>