glycerine

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where can i buy some glycerine? i want to make my own
energy bar.

Any pharmacy should have bottles of it for sale. Make sure
it's pure enough for internal use (ask the pharmacy).

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i went to walgreens.com and eckerd.com, and it seems they
only have glycerin for external use. any ideas where to go?

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i went to walgreens.com and eckerd.com, and it seems
they only have glycerin for external use. any ideas
where to go?

Perhaps health-food shops or shops that specialize in things
like home canning of foods or other do-it-yourself food
preparation.

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i went to walgreens.com and eckerd.com, and it seems
they only have glycerin for external use. any ideas
where to go?

If the glycerine you saw at Walgreens or Eckerd was USP
grade, then it is
99.5% pure or better, and does not have any measurable
caustic residue. If they had designated the same material
for internal use, it would be labeled FCC, and would be
classified as a drug. I just googled glycerine USP, and I
see many references to that material being used in food
manufacturing. I would have no hesitation using the USP
grade internally.

Lar

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If they had designated the same material for internal
use, it would be labeled FCC, and would be classified
as a drug.

Why?

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On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 00:56:34 +0100, Mxsmanic <[email hidden]>
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Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

where can i buy some glycerine? i want to make my own
energy bar.

Any pharmacy should have bottles of it for sale. Make sure
it's pure enough for internal use (ask the pharmacy).

USP or BP should be fine. chech out it is for internal use.

On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 05:20:44 GMT, [email hidden] posted:

Quoted message said:

i went to walgreens.com and eckerd.com, and it seems they
only have glycerin for external use. any ideas where to go?

Check that USP (US Pharmacopea) is for internal use. Then
you should be able to get this just about anywhere. Ring a
phamaceutical supply house.

I got some NOW brand at the cosmetic section of a local
health food store. www.nowfoods.com. "USP grade", talks
about skin use, "Is even pure enough to be taken
internally." "100% pure".

I've used nearly the whole bottle, 16 oz, and love it!
Haven't done any real cooking, just sweetening cold drinks
and some non-cooked 'fudge' with cream cheese and butter and
cocoa powder.

I'm very curious about how it works in the body. It seems to
be helping me a lot. Certainly lost my taste for other
sugars and pastas etc. Does it by-pass insulin resistance?
Does it cause insulin to be produced?

Skinny
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Quoted message said:

i went to walgreens.com and eckerd.com, and it seems
they only have glycerin for external use. any ideas
where to go?

If the glycerine you saw at Walgreens or Eckerd was USP
grade, then it is
99.5% pure or better, and does not have any measurable
caustic residue. If they had designated the same
material for internal use, it would be labeled FCC, and
would be classified as a drug. I just googled glycerine
USP, and I see many references to that material being
used in food manufacturing. I would have no hesitation
using the USP grade internally.

Lar

anon said:

I'm very curious about how it works in the body.

Glycerol (the preferred name of glycerine when it is being
discussed in a nutritional context) is converted to glucose
by the liver. Since glycerol is a by-product of the normal
metabolism of fat, the liver has normal mechanisms for
converting the glycerol to glucose, even though pure
glycerol usually isn't ingested as part of a normal diet.
Once converted to glucose, of course, it behaves like any
other glucose in the body.

Because glycerol is metabolized to produce energy, it's not
calorie-free by any means, so beware.

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It seems to be helping me a lot. Certainly lost my taste
for other sugars and pastas etc. Does it by-pass insulin
resistance?

No, because it ends up as glucose anyway. However, it takes
longer to convert glycerol to glucose than it does to simply
absorb glucose directly (or produce it from other sugars),
so glycerol may not produce the spike in blood sugar that
glucose or other sugars do.

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Does it cause insulin to be produced?

The glucose that is produced from glycerol in the liver has
the same effect on insulin levels and the body as glucose
from any other source would have.

So, while glycerol might be useful in certain foods or in
whatever way you care to use it, remember that it's not any
lower in calories than a carbohydrate would be, and it still
gets turned into glucose eventually (which means that it can
raise your blood sugar, and that it can make you fat just as
any other food can).

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