Max C. said:In article
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Quoted message said:Why doesn't sugar and salt go off? ie: not get polluted by microorganisms?
Bigus
2 main reasons:
1 - Sugar and salt are mostly minerals. As such, they're inorganic.
Microorganisms need organic matter to eat.
COMMENT:
Sugar is as organic as substances get. Look up the word, for godsake.
Quoted message said:2 - White table sugar and salt have been refined to the point that most
living things don't consider them food.
COMMENT:
Not true. Hummingbirds happy drink sugar-water. And if you leave it in
the feeder too long and make it too dilute, it grows an astonishingly
fun array of microbes.
Quoted message said:Likewise, we shouldn't consider
them food either... since we depend on microorganisms in our digestive
tract to help us break down our food.
COMMENT:
Unless you are a termite, this is nonsense. Rarely do I see posts with
so much misinformation.
Quoted message said:A good rule of thumb... if a food has been altered for longer shelf
life, there's a good chance the alteration will impact your health (and
not in a good way.)
COMMENT:
Yeah right. Unless they are done with the proper dose of political
correctness, by Native Americans.
SBH