Peter Aitken wrote:
> "Nexis" > wrote in message
> news:aw8He.23077$HV1.22099@fed1read07...
> >

> > Sorry, but you are mistaken. From McD's:
> > French Fries:
> > Potatoes, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, natural flavor (beef
> > source), dextrose, sodium acid pyrophosphate (to preserve natural color).
> > Cooked in partially hydrogenated vegetable oils (may contain partially
> > hydrogenated soybean oil and/or partially hydrogenated corn oil and/or
> > partially hydrogenated canola oil and/or cottonseed oil and/or sunflower
> > oil and/or corn oil).
> >
>
> Dextrose is sugar, better known as glucose. You should not speak of things
> you obviously do not know about.

Strictly speaking, dextrose is *a* sugar, but is not "sugar." Usually
when people talk about added sugar in cooking or food they mean
sucrose, not dextrose or other sugars. For instance, you can get
juices that say "no sugar added" because they don't add sucrose, even
though they add lots of other fruit juices to the mix which have
fructose. So when McDonald's says they don't add "sugar" to their
fries, they're correct in the usual sense of the word "sugar."

That's not to say, of course, that french fries aren't loaded with fat
and a lot of other things that are very bad for your health.