Why We Love Sugar
Hank talks about a sweet-tasting substance we humans just love - where it comes from, why we need it and how we could maybe stand to love it a little less.
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I'm holding in my hands one of the most magnificent powerful marvelous chemicals in all of the universe and wondering if you would be okay with me if I had some Mmmm... It tastes so good Intro music This, my friends, is your run-of-the-mill table sugar It's made out of some sugar beets... Or... from a... sugar cane... There's no way to tell which But henceforth we're going to be... uhh... calling it by it's proper name which is sucrose. There's a bunch of different kinds of sugars but they're all sweet tasting, edible, carbohydrates So, carbohydrates... probably the tastiest word in the English language and aside from filling up your snack hole and making your kids get all spazzy sugar is one of the most important chemicals on the planet They're ...
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I'm holding in my hands one of the most magnificent powerful marvelous chemicals in all of the universe and wondering if you would be okay with me if I had some Mmmm... It tastes so good Intro music This, my friends, is your run-of-the-mill table sugar It's made out of some sugar beets... Or... from a... sugar cane... There's no way to tell which But henceforth we're going to be... uhh... calling it by it's proper name which is sucrose. There's a bunch of different kinds of sugars but they're all sweet tasting, edible, carbohydrates So, carbohydrates... probably the tastiest word in the English language and aside from filling up your snack hole and making your kids get all spazzy sugar is one of the most important chemicals on the planet They're ...
