| Show FOODS WHICH CONTAIN SUGAR vegetables grains and f fruits viale the sugars we eat must murt ba well cooked fruits grains and vegetables contain the sugars we eat cat fruit sugars are ara directly absorbed into the system without previous preparation by the digestive juices of the intestines and are almost the only food eaten by man of which this can be said bald the sugars bugara found in in cane beets and the tha maple tree roust must undergo the digestive process before they can bo be absorbed by the body grains contain the sugar in the form of starch this sugar can only be developed by thorough cooking or partially digesting starch which to la found in the form of small granules incased encased in a woody covering when thoroughly cooked the granules burst this covering and can bp reached by the saliva and good digestion Is assured the starches wo we have found are the most abundant of all food elements and are largely contained in seeds and plants all olour of our cereals breakfast foods breads legumes etc are about three quarters starch therefore we can realize how important it Is to cook them well A form of sugar called dex trine la is developed in well cooked or par partially itally digested starch and scientists tell us there are twenty five changes in dex trine between raw starch and digested or fruit sugar the sugar in vegetables appears also in the farm form of starch in small quantities compared to that found in cereals most of th ellare m made ada more digestible by cooking the exception Is green corn which contains almost twenty per cont cent of sugar in the place of starch and therefore should be cooked a very short time |
