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Eurekalert  Comments     Threshold   Glucose does not mean food
crop By Solandri on 9/3/2012 6:14:40 PM , Rating: 2  I've
espoused before the problems with corn ethanol (it's only
financially viable because the U.S. subsidizes corn to
deliberately overproduce). But people on the anti-corn ethanol
bandwagon have taken it too far and started to automatically
apply it to any crop-based ethanol.  Plants make sugars via
photosynthesis. They take the energy from sunlight, and store it
in a string of carbon-hydrogen-oxygen molecules we know as
sugars. The primary one is glucose.  Glucose is C6 H12 O6.
Fructose is C6 H12 O6. (slightly different arrangement of atoms)
Sucrose (table sugar) is C12 H22 O11.  Carbohydrates are
starches - basically multiple glucose molecules glued together.
So essentially carbs are sugars glued together to make a large
molecule. Your body uses sucrose and carbs as f