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From: mikem@travis.ssd.csd.harris.com (Mike McCole)
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Subject: Re: Vulgar inquiry (*BLATTT*)
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Date: 23 May 91 18:52:58 GMT
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In article <1806@anaxagoras.ils.nwu.edu> barger@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu (Jorn Barger) writes:
>Settle a bet here: The local health food store is now carrying a pricey
>little bottle of enzymes called "Beano" that you dripple onto your baked
>beans etc, to prevent... flatulence. (Beg pardon!)  Now I remember hearing
>somewhere that the sugars in beans, etc were indigestible because they
>were stereoisomers/mirror images of the usual sugars.  My pal-who-hasn't-
>won-one-yet says nature abhors an enantiomorph, and that no biological
>molecule exists in nature in both forms.  Anybody know for sure? (Gotta
 
    Look up fructose and levulose in a quant chem book.