Abstract
The most startling revelation in The Truth About Carbs, which screened in the UK on BBC2 on June 6, 2018, occurs early in the show. Dietician Alison Barnes takes a few office workers through a game of “blood sugar bingo”. Various foodstuffs are lined up on a utilitarian table: a bagel, a muffin, a portion of white rice, a baked potato, and a handful of strawberries. The volunteers are invited to guess how much sugar each item is broken down into. The muffin contains the equivalent of ten sugar cubes, one fewer than the bagel. The strawberries equate to a relatively modest four cubes. But as far as the human body is concerned, a baked potato amounts to an astonishing 19 sugar cubes; while the bowl of rice, which looks less generous than an average portion in a Chinese restaurant, comes out at 20 sugar cubes. With the exception of the strawberries, the volunteers underestimate the sugar content of every item.
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