ingredients and they make about 2 dozen bars depending on how big you cut them. Ingredients: 1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 cup rolled oats (the Old Fashion, not Quick oats) 1/8 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup shortening 1 cup brown sugar packed tight 3/4 cup smooth peanut butter 1 egg 1 teaspoon vanilla 3/4 cup chopped peanuts Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and spray the bottom of a 9 x 13 inch pan with non-stick spray. HINT: The reason some recipes say to only
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Stritch-Johnson October 21, 2015 Abstract The purpose of this experiment was to identify the two unknown food samples provided. The tests carried out included iodine test for detection of starch presence, Benedict’s test for determination of reducing sugars presence, Biuret test for the detection of protein present, and emulsion test for lipid detection. The two food samples were tested simultaneously for the presence of macromolecules and the tests carried out gave negative results except for Benedict’s
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difficult of a task to accomplish. Sugar is an addictive compound, and many researchers have actually gone so far as to compare its addictive qualities to those of drugs. When sugar is consumed, a chemical in the brain called dopamine, known as a “happiness booster”, is released. Dopamine is the center of pleasure, and the consumption of sugar is one of the ways that it is released into the human body. Humans crave the feeling that is received upon consuming sugar; thus, they consume more. Dopamine
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discovered sugar and brought it back to Europe and the Caribbean. Sugar was used as a sweetener for tea and other treats the Europeans ate. The production of cane sugar become a large industry in Europe. Sugar was not well know until it became a larger industry because it could not grow in Great Britain. The economy exploded because of the rapid production of sugar and constant need of it. The sugar trade was driven by demand, economy, and growing conditions. The reason for demand of sugar, was because
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America tap into the time-honored tradition of sugar production – mainly, the transformation of M sap into maple syrup and sugar. This process, passed on from the Native Americans to the early settlers, is still quite popular today, and is responsible for one of the few wild foods that can be purchased commercially in most supermarkets. Most people associate syrup with the maple tree, and although much of today’s syrup does originate from the sugar maple, all species of maple can be tapped. Even
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further discoveries of its structure and function. Bacteria has a cell wall. This protects the cell and gives it its shape. It also allows the bacteria to retain water. A key ingredient in the cell wall of bacteria is peptidoglycan, which is made up of sugars and proteins. It contributes to the strength of the cell wall. Bacteria can be classified as Gram-positive or Gram-negative depending on the amount of peptidoglycan in their cell walls. Gram-positive bacteria contains a large amount of peptidoglycan
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products in your grocery cart, especially processed foods such as Oreos or Honey Bunches of Oats, you probably are not surprised to see high fructose corn syrup in many of them. Nowadays, high fructose corn syrup accounts for almost half of all added sugars in our diets, and is the main source of sweetener in soda. However, you may be surprised to learn that high fructose corn syrup became the sweetener of choice through the implementation of corn subsidies to U.S. farmers. Farm subsidies have long
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Health/Fitness Corner Sugar…….Friend or Foe??? Do you have a sweet tooth? Do you drink soda and other sugar filled liquids? If you answered yes to these questions keep reading. Did you know one can of soda has fourteen teaspoons of sugar in it? If you drink one can of soda a day for a week you are consuming 98 teaspoons of sugar. Even worse….one soda a day for a month equals 392 teaspoons of sugar. The average American eats about one hundred pounds of sugar a year. Sugar is added to prepared
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are mostly in Malaysia. It is the third largest palm oil estate operator in the world and, through 49%-associate Felda Holdings Berhad, is the world’s largest CPO producer and the second largest Malaysian palm oil refiner. The group is the largest sugar refiner in Malaysia through MSM Holdings. The group’s dominant position in the palm oil space provides it with better economies of scale. There are plans to expand its agribusiness to ASEAN and Africa and build its downstream value-add. We expect the
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photosynthesis. Carbohydrates have monosaccharides, disaccharides, oliqosaccharides, heterosaccharides, and polysaccharides. Examples are glucose, fructose, and lactose. Carbs also consist of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. Most carbohydrates are in sugars, starches, cellulose, and gums. Now, with the human body approach things are pretty easy to understand. We all know that carbohydrates provide the body with energy, but it’s a fact that the glucose from carbs is in the blood and extracellular fluids
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