This week, we talk about the ol’ tippy top of the food pyramid: Candy! 

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[Fact Off]

Cotton candy blood vessels

https://www.designnews.com/stub/synthetic-capillary-networks-artificial-organs-developed-using-cotton-candy-machine

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/vu-ccm020816.php

Cordite (forbidden gum)

Picture: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cordite_Filled_Cartridge.JPG

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/3281990

https://www.chemistryworld.com/podcasts/cordite/1010201.article

https://www.britannica.com/science/nitroglycerin

http://www.gumassociation.org/index.cfm/science-technology/ingredients-technology/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6954562.stm

http://pubsapp.acs.org/cen/whatstuff/85/8532sci2.html

[Ask the Science Couch]

Candy preferences with age

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2764307/

https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(17)30214-0

https://faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1096/fasebj.30.1_supplement.418.6

https://now.tufts.edu/articles/craving-brain

[Butt One More Thing]

Sugar alcohol farts

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5093271/#

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