But in the freezing and thawing soil layer, sequencing showed that bacteria within the soil samples were producing some intriguing proteins, including enzymes that snip long chains of carbon molecules, like cellulose from plants, into shorter,
simpler sugar compounds that the bacteria can use as fuel.
They don't take
the sugar compound from their placebo, randomly switch out one carbon atom for a hydrogen atom, run a split test, and hope for the best.
«I also find many organic chemists have the same feeling that
sugar compounds are difficult to handle, especially when handling them in isolation.»
«Although I can now say it is easy, at the beginning when I joined this project, I struggled a lot to synthesize and isolate
the sugar compounds, because I was not exactly an expert in sugar chemistry, and it was a new research field for me,» says Jiao Jiao, a postdoctoral researcher in Professor Kenichiro Itami's lab at ITbM, Nagoya University.
If you use store bought, read labels to be certain the only ingredients are vanilla beans, alcohol, and perhaps water as most add in
a sugar compound.
So
their sugar compounds do not compare to whole, fresh fruit that brings in sugar in whole food form.