Sucrose (saccharose) is glucose and fructose, about 50/50.
HFCS is also glucose and fructose, but the balance is variable (hence “high-fructose” vs “regular fructose” ). I forgot how the balance induces glycemic spikes, which are a Bad Thing.
Ah, you are right, thanks, that was a word-choice mistake. I left fructose out of my fructose discussion haha. Fixed.
Yep, softdrinks are my focus, and F55 is the one I wanted to obtain. I wanted to see if I could taste a difference from standard sugar water. And if it tasted sweeter. There’s conflicting info about that online. I wanted to test it myself.
Not to derail the already-moribund discussion about bat-lights, but there are plenty of natural sweeteners that can be used. Eg, erythritol is natural, tastes like sugar, and doesn’t do nasty things to the body. Stevia is good if you like a licorice taste (in coffee it’s like anisette). I like honey in my coffee, when I can get it (got that from Jonathan Kent, ironically enough). Never tried agave syrup, but would if I had the chance.
But I absolutely stay away from NutraPoison and the like. Generally avoid sody-pop except for seltzer, and occasionally ginger-ale (and always cut it 1:1 with water anyway, else it’s just sickly-sweet treacle).
“Not to derail the already-moribund discussion about bat-lights….”
with all the prosthetics for animals, I’m sure bat-lights are way down the wishlist for sonic impaired bats
well-meaning efforts might be better applied toward miniaturized hearing aids
Thank goodness I am not there then. We are still pretty much free here …. as far as law abiding citizens go.
It is pretty much like Joshk says here also. Thank goodness….
I was thinking this was going to be a EDC tactical light. Not something you want to use to thump someone with. If you want to do that buy a MagLight for cheap money and use that, or get something like a pd35tac from Fenix and use another weapon whatever it maybe, as that weapon would probably be more suitable for defending yourself over something like a small clublike flashlight that you are using to see and or to blind the attacker. Which could also become disabled because it breaks upon hitting the attacker then you have lost one of your defensive advantages .
Maglites are decent. BUT the tube walls are VERY THIN. Can dent and bend easily. I tried to destroy one but really dented it real bad. Electronics powering light got damaged bad too.
The design of Batlight has to be in separate ( 2 - 3 pieces ) so that structural power is much stronger. Very important is thickness of diameter of tube. So when striking lessens chance of breakage.
I personally would use stainless steel or high carbon steel. Use the latest LEDs, run on 3 - 4 26650 OR 3 - 4 18650s. With aggressive SS strike bezel removable of course. similar to Wowtacs BSS Vol 3.