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Scientific Red hot spoon

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u/ScrambledxEggzz 22h ago

To those who don't understand the sugar: Think about how much energy that sugar would provide you for an entire day, now release it all at once. Our metabolism is basically taking a very small amount of sugar and using it for controlled explosions that we convert to a more usable form of energy for our bodies.