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Is sugar a salt?
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This might sound like a really stupid fuckin question, but is it?


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Re: Is sugar a salt? [Re: Artnotwar]
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im sure someone will correct me if am wrong - but i thought :

sugar was the crystilized sap of the sugarcane stalk - and salt was a mineral from the earth.
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Re: Is sugar a salt? [Re: Artnotwar]
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No, it's not a salt...it's a carbohydrate.

Basically a hydrocarbon with a lot of OH groups added to it.

More technically, table sugar (sucrose) is a disaccharide made from glucose and fructose bound together.


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Re: Is sugar a salt? [Re: trendal]
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A salt is defined as a compound made of a metal and non metal... Sugar is a complex carb.

Edited by HighTek (05/06/07 09:20 AM)

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Re: Is sugar a salt? [Re: HighTek]
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I heard in chem class one time that all salts taste "salty". Anybody know if that's true or not?


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Re: Is sugar a salt? [Re: GreenScreen]
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I believe so...at least all the ones I have tasted are "salty".

There's a lot of salts you wouldn't catch me tasting...like Tl2SO4 for instance. In fact, just keep all those salts with a higher atomic number metal away from me!

Edit - I just looked at the wiki article for thallium sulfate, and it says that it is tasteless...so I guess not all salts are "salty"...

Edit #2 - and I just found out that a lot of lead salts are sweet tasting! They actually used them in candy and to sweeten wine. Well thats one way to go...


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Edited by trendal (05/06/07 11:34 AM)

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Re: Is sugar a salt? [Re: trendal]
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GreenScreen said:
I heard in chem class one time that all salts taste "salty". Anybody know if that's true or not?


Well, the ocean has lot of different salts in it, thats why its so damn salty.

trendal said:
I believe so...at least all the ones I have tasted are "salty".

Edit #2 - and I just found out that a lot of lead salts are sweet tasting! They actually used them in candy and to sweeten wine. Well thats one way to go...


Ive never heard that... which ones are sweet?

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Re: Is sugar a salt? [Re: HighTek]
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damn i wish i had of done chemistry at school.


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Re: Is sugar a salt? [Re: Artnotwar]
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Organic chem is a bitch! But all my favorite molecules are organic, well most of em!

Trendal be right, simple sugar = glucose, I try to stay away from sucrose, fructose, high fructose corn syrup,, and artificals, aspartame is horrible for you....

lead salts? hmm, safe i suppose, just like the chrloine in sucralose.


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Re: Is sugar a salt? [Re: WildLASER]
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salts are defined as the product of neutralization of acids and bases

since sugar is a hydrocarbon with OH groups (carboxylic acid) and water is always present with some acid and base, sugar is only a salt in the loosest sense

there are plenty of hydrocarbon salts, our bodies couldn't metabolize sugars without them

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Re: Is sugar a salt? [Re: Nashbar]
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lets go over the whole enzymatic chain and include all peptides and proteins etc,..... or not


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Re: Is sugar a salt? [Re: WildLASER]
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lots of salts there

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