Heart Healthy Mayo

[TexasRanger]

Tofu Mayonnaise



12.3 ounce package firm silken tofu

1 ½ tablespoons lemon juice

1 teaspoon sugar

½ teaspoon salt

¼ teaspoon dry mustard

1/8 teaspoon white pepper



Combine all ingredients in a food processor and process until smooth. Cover and refrigerate.

This will keep in the refrigerator for at least 1 week.

(And yes, yes, yes -- tofu...OMG! The horrors!)

[Bruce Tackett]

I would replace the sugar with raw, unfiltered honey. I use honey in place of sugar for everything.

[TexasRanger]

Honey = sugar with some trace nutrients and some locally derived lectins, etc., that are supposed (still being debated) to help you build your resistance to local allergens.   Really not much difference.

Composition of sugar = sucrose.  

Sucrose is common table sugar. It is a disaccharide, a molecule composed of two monosaccharides: glucose and fructose. Sucrose is produced naturally in plants, from which table sugar is refined. It has the formula C12H22O11.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucrose

Composition of honey = fructose + glucose

Honey gets its sweetness from the monosaccharides fructose and glucose, and has about the same relative sweetness as sucrose (granulated sugar).[4][5

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey

Neither's any better than the other if you're trying to lose bodyfat, reduce inflammation, etc.  And remember, fructose is the issue since it isn't metabolized the same as glucose by the body...very similar to the issue with alcohol.

Honey isn’t as healthy as we think
Honey has an aura of purity and naturalness. Fresh air, birdsong, forests and meadows.

High-fructose corn sweetener? Not so much.

So you might think that honey is better for you. But a study published this month compared the health effects of honey and the processed sweetener and found no significant differences.


“The effects were essentially the same,” said Susan K. Raatz, a research nutritionist at the USDA who conducted the study with two colleagues.

www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/09/11/honey-seemed-like-a-healthier-choice-then-scientists-tested-it-against-high-fructose-corn-syrup/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.e4cea3f1c97c

[Bruce Tackett]

I can't pull up studies at the drop of a hat, but I have read that the reason sugar is bad for you is because it draws upon and depletes something - enzymes? - in your body in order to process it. Honey comes with its own processing agent.

[mr potatohead]

If the interest is in health, not merely weight loss .....
Lots more going on in sugar and honey than just fructose.
Refined sugar and raw, unfiltered honey are worlds apart in the way the nutrients (negative nutrients, in the case of refined sugar) affect the human body. They are so dissimilar in effect that they might be considered fructose-containing nutritional opposites. 

[TexasRanger]

Aug 19, 2018 16:51:03 GMT Bruce Tackett said:

I can't pull up studies at the drop of a hat, but I have read that the reason sugar is bad for you is because it draws upon and depletes something in your body in order to process it. Honey comes with its own processing agent.

I know what you're referring to and have see the same thing, but, I think you're referring to the statement honey is predigested and has some trace enzymes. 

That is different from the metabolic pathways required to handle different sugars we ingest...whether it is potatoes, rice, oats, HFCS, honey or sugar, they're all forms of of simple sugars.   For oats or potatoes? Molecules from simple sugars attach together and form what are called "long branching chains" -- aka complex carbohydrates.  Fiber in carbs?  They're just complex carbs with longer chains

But, the sugars in honey have to follow the same metabolic processes as any other sugar you ingest.  And, the fructose + glucose require two different metabolic pathways.  A little biochemistry for your Sunday reading:   

upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Carbohydrate_Metabolism.png/660px-Carbohydrate_Metabolism.png

 

[TexasRanger]

Aug 19, 2018 17:27:51 GMT mr potatohead said:

If the interest is in health, not merely weight loss .....
Lots more going on in sugar and honey than just fructose.
Refined sugar and raw, unfiltered honey are worlds apart in the way the nutrients (negative nutrients, in the case of refined sugar) affect the human body. They are so dissimilar in effect that they might be considered fructose-containing nutritional opposites. 

Unfortunately, that is not correct and the nutrients in honey are so minute the overhyping is ridiculous.  

Just ask any Type 2 diabetic if he or she can consume honey or sugar?  The answer's no to both because they again have the same negative impact on the body.  

Biochemistry related to sugars doesn't change whether it is in the form of sucrose or honey.

[mr potatohead]

Yes, when the sugar is isolated from the food.
Sure, if a person has a medical condition, then they must avoid some things that people who are normally healthy do not. That seems obvious.
Anyway, not going to argue. Raw unfiltered honey has benefits that I've experienced and I've also experienced the negatives of refined sugar.

[TexasRanger]

Aug 19, 2018 17:39:51 GMT mr potatohead said:

Yes, when the sugar is isolated from the food.
Sure, if a person has a medical condition, then they must avoid some things that people who are normally healthy do not. That seems obvious.
Anyway, not going to argue. Raw unfiltered honey has benefits that I've experienced and I've also experienced the negatives of refined sugar.

Not correct.

Sugar is sugar when it hits the body.  For folks tuning in, the only differences in sugar in say oats hitting the body vs. honey?  The oats are a complex carb and therefore release their sugars into the body at a far, far slower rate than honey, which is pretty much straight sugars. 

So people tuning in ask, what?  Honey is pretty much straight sugar?  Not quite -- it is suspended in the liquid -- but there is no fiber in honey that it binds to which would slow the digestion of the sugars.

Anyway, if you're saying sugar arrives in the body in the form of "honey" -- a pretty simple sugar -- that it is healthier, well, have fun with the myths and spin the honey industry has created.

If you want to be healthy? Lose weight?  Avoid simple sugars is what it comes down to.  Honey, table sugar (sucrose), HFSCs in processed foods.  

Either way, honey's +80% or more simple sugars...

[Bruce Tackett]

Anything that comes from a bee's butt can't be all bad.

[TexasRanger]

Wrong end of the bee.

Honey is regurgitated nectar from the flowers they've visited.

And nectar contains two sugars: fructose and glucose.