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Re:Children under eight should avoid slushies as glycerol le... by gitaarik on Thursday March 13, 2025 @04:58AM (#43351437)
Bur honey contains some very useful ingredients also, so it's good to have some honey so now and then.

And agave does have a lower glymetic index than table sugar. So that certainly makes a difference.

Also I think that more naturally grown food is in general better and healthier for us compared to artificially / synthatically make food. Because natural processes add a lot more nutritional value to the food than we realize. We keep discovering new things that are in there which we didn't know about before.

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Re:Children under eight should avoid slushies as glycerol le... by basch on Thursday March 13, 2025 @04:31PM (#43356963)
Isnt that just because agave is 80% fructose to 20% glucose, instead of the 55/45 split of hfcs.
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Re:Children under eight should avoid slushies as glycerol le... by gitaarik on Friday March 14, 2025 @07:17AM (#43361489)
Yeah but agave is also a natural product from the agave plant, not artificially made, so it probably contains more useful nutrition, although I guess less than honey. But better than synthetically made anyway.
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