Actionable Knowledge.

• All carbohydrates, whether called sugar, starch, or fiber, are composed of glucose and must be broken down into glucose before they become nutritious to human cells.
• Generally, carbohydrates exist on a continuum of increasingly complex combinations, counts, and configurations of glucose, collectively called compounds. At various points on this continuum, these compounds are called sugars, starches, and fibers. Sugars are relatively simple compounds of glucose, starches are more complex compounds of glucose, and fibers are very complex compounds of glucose. Notice a trend here? That's right, it's all glucose.
• Any food that is not protein, vitamins, and fats and is a non-glucose carbohydrate undergoes hydrolysis and is potentially harmful and toxic above a threshold typically routinely exceeded in the American diet. But this is NOT to say a Keto, Low-Carb, or Paleo diet is good. It's to say that too much sugar, starches, and fiber is bad (yes, fiber, too!).
• When you start to understand the bioreactor, microbiome ecosystem, and hydrolysis, it seems very reasonable to eliminate other complex sugars, additives, thickeners, and emulsifiers, which are often very similar to very complex sugars and starches.

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