Thursday, November 29, 2007

Random stuff:

Why are the words that you are supposed to shout when you are in an emergency so difficult to shout? For example, in English you shout "Help!" which ends with a "p", so it doesn't carry. In Mandarin you shout "Jiu Ming" which is even worse. (Although Mandarin has an advantage that you can add an "ah" at the back, so "Jiu Ming Ah!" is still proper mandarin, but "Help ah!" just sounds weird.) Perhaps, when we need help, we should just shout "AHHHHHH" since it is probably an exclamation word in every language, and it is easier to shout.

Horlicks contains as much calcium as 5 glasses of milk, as much vitamin B6 as 48 bananas, and as much iron as 3 kg of spinach! Wow! I'll bet sea water contains more of these. Of course, that would depend on how much Horlicks and seawater you are comparing. (Don't you think "Horlicks" is a rather provocative name?)

As I browsed through NTUC aimlessly, I found out that they stock palm margarine, sunflower seed margarine, canola margarine, olive margarine, and extra virgin olive margarine. Wait, canola and olive margarine? Aren't canola and olive oil considered healthy oils because of their high monounsaturated fat content? So when you hydrogenate canola/olive oil, wouldn't you get really expensive margarine that has as much monounsaturated goodness as palm kernal oil? But that's not just it. Theoretically, hydrogenation is reversible, so some dehydrogenation should take place at the same time, and by Saytzeff's rule, you should get some extra trans fatty goodness too!

So theoretically, canola and olive margarine should be more expensive and contain more trans fats than palm margarine, since palm oil naturally contains more saturated fats and thus need to be hydrogenated to a lesser extent. However, it turns out that from a comparison of the nutrition value chart, the proportion of trans fats os as follows:

Praise(Palm) > Canola > Olive > Planta(Palm) > Extra Virgin Olive

Quite surprising. But once you consider price, Planta owns all. And it doesn't even need to be refrigerated.

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