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the fuel your brain burns at twice the rate of any other organ.
means A simple sugar that circulates in your blood and serves as the body's primary source of energy.
from From the French 'glucose,' coined in the 19th century from the Greek 'gleukos,' meaning sweet wine or sweetness — a cousin of 'glykys,' the Greek word for sweet, which also flavors words like 'glycerin' and 'licorice.' The chemists who named it were essentially pointing at the molecule and saying: this is the sweet stuff.
- brain greed
- Uses 20% of your glucose at 2% of body weight.
- plant origin
- Photosynthesis builds it from sunlight, water, and air.
- blood math
- Just one teaspoon circulates in your entire bloodstream.
- ring shape
- Six-carbon molecule that folds into a hexagonal ring.
- name root
- From Greek gleukos, meaning sweet wine.
for instance
glucose in blood — normal fasting level is 70-100 mg/dl in humans
corn syrup glucose — high-fructose corn syrup is 42% glucose, used in ~40% of us sweetened foods
glucose in grapes — comprises ~8% of grape weight, primary sugar driving fermentation in wine