Thread by @mrc314

@Sydney843 @lowcarbGP @ProfTimNoakes @FructoseNo I ran this un-sourced statement to ground, and unsurprisingly, it doesn't pan out. This is the paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.jff.…

It describes a novel phenolic compound they named Quebecol. It is a non-natural process-derived (evaporating the syrup) compound

@Sydney843 @lowcarbGP @ProfTimNoakes @FructoseNo The paper does not mention diabetes, nor insulin. However a press release equates this Quebecol compound to other compounds that "possess anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, which have been shown to fight cancer, diabetes and bacterial illnesses." Oops.

@Sydney843 @lowcarbGP @ProfTimNoakes @FructoseNo Unsurprisingly, Gittleman sites press release language as scientific fat, and the readers (and editors apparently) of Women's Day cannot tell the difference here. The release: eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2…

@Sydney843 @lowcarbGP @ProfTimNoakes @FructoseNo This project was supported by the Conseil pour le de´veloppement
de l’agriculture du Que´bec (CDAQ), with funding provided
by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Advancing
Canadian Agriculture and Agri-Food (ACAAF) Program. …

@Sydney843 @lowcarbGP @ProfTimNoakes @FructoseNo "The Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers participated in
the financing, collection, and donation of maple syrup
samples from Quebec, Canada."

So here's a better story for Women's Day (that won't be published):

@Sydney843 @lowcarbGP @ProfTimNoakes @FructoseNo Hack nutritionist selling snake oil says Maple syrup can help your diabetes after study paid for by the syrup industry suggests chemists found a substance in some syrup that resembles other substances (not found in maple syrup) that posses anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory …

@Sydney843 @lowcarbGP @ProfTimNoakes @FructoseNo properties hoping you will think that consuming maple syrup won't worsen your diabetes even though you know it will because the objective is to find a guilt-free way to obtain your sugar fix.

@Sydney843 @lowcarbGP @ProfTimNoakes @FructoseNo I probably should have properly threaded this and proofed the text better but I just started typing because this kind of shit kills and harms people every day, some of whom were my relatives and friends. AAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

@Sydney843 @lowcarbGP @ProfTimNoakes @FructoseNo PS: The "study" was from 2011 and contains zero truth.

Maple syrup isn't very green either: you must boil 20.5 gallons to obtain 2 pints of syrup. How many BTUs of wood/fossil fuel required to produce this stuff?