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Old December 20th, 2004, 04:27 AM
Skinny
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Default let yeast eat the sugar?

I have a friend who understands chemistry, who said I might be able to
de-carb some things (such as fruit or special drinks) by adding yeast and
letting the yeast turn the sugar into alcohol.

He said the limiting factor would be, whether the alcohol content built up
too high before all the sugar was used. However it seems that might be
worked with. I might heat the mixture to drive off the alcohol, then add
more yeast.

Has anyone tried anything like this?


Skinny
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Old December 20th, 2004, 04:41 AM
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If you spend all of your time experimenting with your theories, and not
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"Skinny" wrote in message
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I have a friend who understands chemistry, who said I might be able to
de-carb some things (such as fruit or special drinks) by adding yeast and
letting the yeast turn the sugar into alcohol.

He said the limiting factor would be, whether the alcohol content built up
too high before all the sugar was used. However it seems that might be
worked with. I might heat the mixture to drive off the alcohol, then add
more yeast.

Has anyone tried anything like this?


Skinny



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Old December 20th, 2004, 04:41 AM
JC Der Koenig
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If you spend all of your time experimenting with your theories, and not
eating, you might have a winner.

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"Skinny" wrote in message
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I have a friend who understands chemistry, who said I might be able to
de-carb some things (such as fruit or special drinks) by adding yeast and
letting the yeast turn the sugar into alcohol.

He said the limiting factor would be, whether the alcohol content built up
too high before all the sugar was used. However it seems that might be
worked with. I might heat the mixture to drive off the alcohol, then add
more yeast.

Has anyone tried anything like this?


Skinny



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Old December 20th, 2004, 04:46 AM
Priscilla Ballou
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In article ,
Skinny wrote:

I have a friend who understands chemistry, who said I might be able to
de-carb some things (such as fruit or special drinks) by adding yeast and
letting the yeast turn the sugar into alcohol.

He said the limiting factor would be, whether the alcohol content built up
too high before all the sugar was used. However it seems that might be
worked with. I might heat the mixture to drive off the alcohol, then add
more yeast.

Has anyone tried anything like this?


It's called fermenting, and a few other people do this, too. You can
even buy the end product in a specialty store called a "liquor store."
Check out products like "wine" and "beer."

On the less sarcastic side, that's precisely why yoghurt is low-carb.
The yoghurt cultures eat the milk sugars and turn it into lactic acid.

Priscilla

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Old December 20th, 2004, 05:05 AM
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That's how yogurt works except it isn't yeast and the sugars are turned into
lactic acid. What you will end up with if you use fruit is wine.

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Skinny stated
| I have a friend who understands chemistry, who said I might be able to
| de-carb some things (such as fruit or special drinks) by adding yeast
| and letting the yeast turn the sugar into alcohol.
|
| He said the limiting factor would be, whether the alcohol content
| built up too high before all the sugar was used. However it seems
| that might be worked with. I might heat the mixture to drive off the
| alcohol, then add more yeast.
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| Has anyone tried anything like this?
|
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| Skinny


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Old December 20th, 2004, 07:57 AM
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Skinny wrote:

I have a friend who understands chemistry, who said I might be able to
de-carb some things (such as fruit or special drinks) by adding yeast and
letting the yeast turn the sugar into alcohol.

He said the limiting factor would be, whether the alcohol content built up
too high before all the sugar was used. However it seems that might be
worked with. I might heat the mixture to drive off the alcohol, then add
more yeast.

Has anyone tried anything like this?


Skinny


While you can ferment sugar-ethanol and reduce carbs, you dont get
anywhere.

Alcohol metaboliises into acetaldehyde then ketone bodies. Its an energy
source readily used by the body.

gtoomey
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Old December 20th, 2004, 12:03 PM
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Too funny!

"Jim Bard" wrote in message
news:crtxd.301$ZL.169@okepread03...

Jesus turned the waters into wine, rather than fruit juice. Apparently He
was the first advocate of low-carb beverages.



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Old December 20th, 2004, 03:59 PM
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At one time I experimented with growing acidophilus in a gallon of milk. At
the end there was a layer of white growing on the bottom of the bottle. I
don't have a lab to know what the actual result was.

These days I just buy heavy cream instead of milk.

You may want to research the Weston A. Price (WAP) people. They do a lot of
fermenting. I'm afraid to try anything like they do, because of the risk of
a pathogen infecting my food. How the hell can one know which microbes are
really growing? All it takes is one contamination error and you are dead,
or worse.

"Skinny" wrote in message
...
I have a friend who understands chemistry, who said I might be able to
de-carb some things (such as fruit or special drinks) by adding yeast and
letting the yeast turn the sugar into alcohol.

He said the limiting factor would be, whether the alcohol content built up
too high before all the sugar was used. However it seems that might be
worked with. I might heat the mixture to drive off the alcohol, then add
more yeast.

Has anyone tried anything like this?


Skinny



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Old December 20th, 2004, 09:09 PM
JC Der Koenig
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What's his bodyfat %?

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On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 03:41:32 GMT, JC Der Koenig
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If you spend all of your time experimenting with your theories, and not
eating, you might have a winner.


he is not fat.
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223/172.4/180



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Old December 20th, 2004, 10:29 PM
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On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 16:57:09 +1000, Gregory Toomey wrote:

Skinny wrote:

I have a friend who understands chemistry, who said I might be able to
de-carb some things (such as fruit or special drinks) by adding yeast

and
letting the yeast turn the sugar into alcohol.

He said the limiting factor would be, whether the alcohol content built

up
too high before all the sugar was used. However it seems that might be
worked with. I might heat the mixture to drive off the alcohol, then add
more yeast.

Has anyone tried anything like this?


Skinny


While you can ferment sugar-ethanol and reduce carbs, you dont get
anywhere.


Depends on where you're going.


Alcohol metaboliises into acetaldehyde then ketone bodies. Its an energy
source readily used by the body.


My concern is BG (blood glucose/sugar) not weight. Note the name 'Skinny'.
Alcohol seems easier on the insulin metabolism than sugar, fructose, etc. Or
it can be driven out by heating. (I've turned cheap red wine into cheap
non-alcoholic red wine and it isn't bad.)

I'd like more of the taste and texture of fresh fruits without the fructose,
and some special things like Oregon Chai's Chai Nog that come with a lot of
sugar and honey mixed in (tasting too sweet to me now that I'm low-carbing).


Skinny




 




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