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The Home for Christian Writers!   Christian Living PLEASE ENCOURAGE THE AUTHOR BY COMMENTING   LEAVE COMMENT ON ARTICLE   SEND A PRIVATE MESSAGE   HIRE THIS WRITER REPORT ARTICLE  TRACK THIS AUTHOR  ADD TO MY FAVORITES   Fruit Substitutes by Patricia Sprague 03/27/05 For Sale Author requests article critique  SEND A PRIVATE MESSAGE  HIRE THIS WRITER Tweet Fruit Substitutes A food product (e.g., a candy bar, cookie, or donut) sweetened with sugar to resemble the taste of the ripened ovaries of apple, banana, and other seed-bearing plants. Usage: So successful have fruit substitutes become as "edible signs" (i.e., as foods suggesting the presence of ripe fruits and berries), that they are as common in the modern diet as fruit itself. Half of the U.S. population, e.g., does not eat a single piece of fresh fruit a day (Sugarman 1992). In a lifetime, Americans eat more candy (1,500 lbs.) than apples (1,400 lbs.; Heyman 1992). Apples, oranges, and raspberries have bowed to sweeter-tasting candies and pastry products, such as Tastykakes®, which encode more chemical information, and have more to "say." Flavor. Decoded in the chemical channels for taste and smell, a piece of fruit is usually no match for a baked good. As culinary signals, cookies and donuts are designed to send far more complex sets of messages a. to tongue receptors, through sweet--as well as salty--tastes, and b. to nasal receptors, through rich caramelized aromas of baked sucrose and deep-fried fat. A banana's natural flavor molecules (called esters) are pleasant, but are no match for the salty-sweet, buttery taste, and resonant aroma, e.g., of strudel. Used by permission: Copyright © 1998 - 2001 (David B. Givens/Center for Nonverbal Studies) In both the physical and spiritual realm…fruit is essential for our well being. The fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. (Galatians 5:22). Have we replaced the real fruit of the Spirit with our own artificially created love, our own alternative to faith, and our own imitation of peace? Fruit substitutes? I am guilty. I have wandered away from the God ordained and God made fruits He has created. Why do we hunger for those other things? Why do we consume what we knowingly understand is harmful to us? Why do we substitute what is His best for our lives? Patricia Sprague 2005 Read more articles by Patricia Sprague or search for articles on the same topic or others. Read NEWEST ARTICLES by Christian authors Read MOST READ ARTICLES by Christian authors Read our most read and highly acclaimed CHALLENGE CONTEST ARTICLES JOIN US at FaithWriters for Free. Grow as a Writer and Spread the Gospel. If you died today, are you absolutely certain that you would go to heaven? You can be! TRUST JESUS NOW The opinions expressed by authors do not necessarily reflect the opinion of FaithWriters.com.   This article has been read 552 times     < Previous | Next > Member Comments Member Date TRUST JESUS TODAY ALL SINS FORGIVEN Free Audio Bible 500 Plus Languages Faith Comes By Hearing.com

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