But if you need something to soak up the booze late at night, this bluntly engineered mix of protein, carbs, fat and barely refined sugar, is the very thing.
The most recent big brouhaha is over studies in the Journal of the American Medical Association and PLoS Medicine finding that antidepressants barely beat sugar pills for mild and moderate depression.
And with a barely-there sugar crust coating that crackles ever so delicately when the teeth press into the confection, no artisan marshmallow can compare.
A tall Starbucks caramel Frappuccino contains 11 teaspoons of sugar – barely two spoons under the recommended daily intake for women.
Summer pudding is simplicity itself -- berries and currants barely simmered with sugar to release their juices, then poured into a pudding basin lined with slices of slightly stale white bread.
The most important crops cultivated in the region are wheat, barely, maize, rice, sugar beet and tomato.
Palm sugar, mellower than cane sugar, is barely detectable.
It should be barely sweet; add more sugar if necessary.
When the two hit the wire, it was Spun Sugar with barely a nose in front.
"We tried to blow up a tank near a bridge last week with urea and sugar and barely damaged the tank.
But while these can often lead to progress in manufacturing and services, they are less successful at reducing farm subsidies, as America's recent trade deal with Australia, which excluded sugar and barely touched beef and dairy, demonstrated.
