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averygoodun42While I've spent most of the evening on the computer researching negotiating start prices for cars (I spent the daytime hours doing homework (I want a day off)), I decided to look up the validity of my rant the other day about fenugreek. It occurred to me that it's possible that fenugreek is a polysaccharide in structure, thereby making it very difficult for the impaired GI to digest, even when it's been pulverized.
So I looked up it's chemical structure, and, ya know, it looks more like a steroid than a carbohydrate to my ignorant eyes. I mean, compare it to cholesterol or vitamin D. In essence, it has the same core structure. Yeah, fenugreek expands on it rather a lot through branching, but at the heart it's four fused hydrocarbon rings like the other steroids. (Here's amylose, a starch molecule, for comparison.)
Granted, I am a novice (who is still trying to wrap her mind around atomic orbitals and bonding), so I could be WAY off base.
So that makes me wonder if Mrs. Gottschall saw steroids as indigestible along with starches. She had little problem with the other lipids, though...
So I looked up it's chemical structure, and, ya know, it looks more like a steroid than a carbohydrate to my ignorant eyes. I mean, compare it to cholesterol or vitamin D. In essence, it has the same core structure. Yeah, fenugreek expands on it rather a lot through branching, but at the heart it's four fused hydrocarbon rings like the other steroids. (Here's amylose, a starch molecule, for comparison.)
Granted, I am a novice (who is still trying to wrap her mind around atomic orbitals and bonding), so I could be WAY off base.
So that makes me wonder if Mrs. Gottschall saw steroids as indigestible along with starches. She had little problem with the other lipids, though...
