Bats also eat snacks

Some people have sweet cravings after drinking too much alcohol. And according to a new report last Sunday by Professor Francisco Sanchez Ben-Gurion University in the Negev - Israel at the annual conference on biological experiments in Glasgow about a kind of fruit bat in Egypt also likes to eat one. Special types of sugary foods to reduce the effects of ethanol toxins.

Ethanol is concentrated in ripe fruits like figs and scrub. And one kind of fruit bat in Egypt likes these fruits, but only about 1% ethanol in it is very toxic to animals. " Drunk " bats will be hard to resist predators and obstacles such as humans. Fructose sugar molecules are considered to reduce ethanol toxicity. Therefore, experts investigated the impact of using fructose on ethanol toxins in bats and see if they wanted to eat sweetened sucrose after using ethanol.

Bats also snack (Photo: Sciencedaily)

The finding suggests that the amount of ethanol measured in their breaths decreased more quickly after eating fructose-containing foods than eating foods containing sucrose or glucose (two other sugars). In addition, when using a lot of ethanol, these bats also prefer fructose-rich foods more than glucose. And it is surprising that those bats also like sucrose food more than the other two.

Therefore, although only fructose has reduced the toxicity of ethanol, they still prefer both fructose and sucrose for their own benefit, according to researcher Francisco Sanchez. may vary depending on the type of sugar and the amount of ethanol consumed. The combination of sucrose with ethanol will give better results than ethanol and fructose or ethanol and glucose.

Types of sugar:

Glucose is a type of simple sugar (the term is called monosaccharide) found in most plant and animal tissues. It is the basic sugar found in blood and the main energy source.

Frutoza is another type of monosaccharide found in most fruits and honey.

Sucrose is known as a common sugar consisting of 1 molecule of glucose and 1 molecule of fromose (hence called disaccharide).

Anh Phuong

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