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Eric Bakker, the naturopath. Thanks for coming back. Let's talk about brown rice syrup.
Many people have asked me this question, if brown rice syrup is healthy alternative to sugar,
a healthy alternative to high fructose corn syrup. Well, it ain't. Go and do your own research.
Brown rice syrup is just basically boiled down starch, if you think about how they make this.
Go to Wikipedia or go to a chemical website to see how they make the brown rice syrup. They
use enzymes to break the starch rice compound down, and they end up with this gooey liquid
with different types of sugars in it, maltose, maltotriose, glucose. There
are various sugars in it, and then they just concentrate this syrup thicker and thicker
and heat it up until it becomes a syrup. A little bit like corn syrup will be made, quite similar.
So if you look at the calories on table sugar, I think it's around 40 to
50 calories per tablespoon. It could be 60, but the brown rice syrup is 70 to
80. So it's higher calorie than sugar. But the big issue is the arsenic levels in it,
and this is because how it's grown. The water's contaminated with arsenic in these rice fields.
It's not a great food to eat anymore, brown rice. It used to be when I was younger, but now there's
too much contamination going on. Wild rice is probably a better alternative, but a lot more
expensive. But even then, so many of these fields are becoming slowly and increasingly contaminated.
I can't believe what I've seen in my lifetime in terms of environmental pollution.
I wouldn't touch brown rice syrup. I think the safety levels back in 2000, 2005 or something,
by the EPA was, I think, around 10 parts per billion PPB, parts per billion. But when you
look at some infant formulas, they get up to 50, 60, 80 parts per billion if they've got the rice
syrup in there. They did research on snack bars, muesli bars, chalky bars with rice syrup, and some
of the levels went up to 120, even 180 per billion [inaudible 00:03:09] arsenic from the brown rice
syrup. So don't touch it. I leave it. My only one form of sweetening in my life, apart from my wife,
is honey, is natural honey from my own beehives. And I know how to keep bees now. I've done it for
nearly 10 years, and it's the best sweetener of all, in my opinion. It's fantastic. It's
antifungal. It's great for allergies. If you consume honey from your area, you'll be getting
a wide range of pollens, so it really helps people with allergies. And it's also for the gut.
So when you have something that's minimally processed, if processed at all,
straight from nature in a sugar form, it's going to be better for you than when a guy
in a white coat in a lab gets hold of it, right? Because he's going to stuff it up.
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