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Thirst quencher
I know pop exists, but who would drink plain sugar water???
It’s a medical product used to test for type 2 diabetes (oral glucose tolerance test/OGTT)
So they shouldn’t have been a regular part of my balanced breakfast?
It’s to measure insulin response in diabetic people. Also it’s not plain, it’s pumpkin spice! :p
The goal is to give someone under monitoring a very large volume of sugar in a controlled environment and measure their body’s insulin response. This is particularly a test of Phase I insulin response when your body responds to sugar intake by releasing stored insulin as opposed to Phase II insulin response where your body secretes insulin as it is produced to bring down elevated blood sugar after the Phase I stores are depleted.
That said this is a nutty amount of sugar and I had no idea that they made them this large.
Tbh the flavor of those things is a big problem, they’re hard to choke down and a glucose tolerance test requires drinking it on an empty stomach, and if you puke you have to stop and come back another day after fasting again. Looks like that’s the orange flavor which is better than the grape but imo they’re all nasty in the end. A more palatable mixture might be nice.
How can you make sugar water taste bad? Or am I not getting something here?
Go chug some simple syrup straight and get back to me on that one, LOL. It’s not bad to put a smear on your cheek or tongue or to sip on I guess but to drink the amount you would need to for a gtt is… a LOT.
Looks like 75grams of dextrose and 75 grams of sucrose, 150grams of sweetener in 10oz is a metric fuckload of sweetener. It’s basically syrup at that point.
I got curious and grabbed my bottle of maple syrup out of the fridge. It’s got 24g of sugar per 2tbsp serving (24g/oz), so it would need to be diluted to 60% strength to match this oral glucose test drink.
On a related note, I just drank 1.5oz of maple syrup diluted to 2.5oz of total volume, as a little experiment. Not too bad; I could do that three more times if necessary for a medical test pretty easily without complaining. Definitely sugary enough that drinking it makes you thirstier instead of refreshing you, though.
Half of items at Trader Joe’s are pumpkin spice. I hate pumpkin spice. Can’t find anything I regularly buy.
