<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394">Batteries are relatively new, but I don't think that's the issue.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394">Put 5g fiber in shot glass, doesn't change from 5g.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394">Put almond milk in container and zero it, doesn't change from zero.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394">Add fiber to almond milk, see 5g then rapidly drops.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 8:34 AM Charles H. Holbrow <<a href="mailto:cholbrow@colgate.edu">cholbrow@colgate.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">Time for new batteries in your scale?</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Feb 13, 2023, at 8:33 AM, Robert Primak <<a href="mailto:bobprimak@yahoo.com" target="_blank">bobprimak@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div></div>
<div dir="ltr">Steve -- </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Does your almond milk contain probiotics?</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Probiotics are by definition live cultures. They will consume polysaccharides like soluble fiber.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">-- Bob Primak </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Monday, February 13, 2023 at 07:37:28 AM EST, arnold peterson <<a href="mailto:alp4982@gmail.com" target="_blank">alp4982@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
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<div><div id="m_-5540797094790092572yiv5840255959"><div><div dir="ltr">I wonder if heat is produced by this reaction, then I could understand a weight loss. <div><br clear="none"></div><div>There is another possibility. I have a food scale that I weigh my ground coffee. Sometimes it seems like the scale takes time for the reading to settle down. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>I find that when I use a larger amount of coffee this is less of a problem. le: If using 20-25 g this is less likely to happen than when I use 10g, which happens almost all the time.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>The scale I use is a weight watchers scale. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>I think a balance scale might be a way for another more reliable method. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>I think this is a physics problem, of the scale. My scale likes to move in 2 g increments. -arnie</div><div><br clear="none"></div></div><br clear="none"><div><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 10:00 PM Larry Wittig <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" href="mailto:9423lew@gmail.com" target="_blank">9423lew@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:georgia,serif">Can you try it again in a jar with a screw-on top that was included when you weighed the jar and milk. Right after you add the power screw the top on tight.</div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif">Why did you do this in the first place -- did you read that this might happen?</div></div><br clear="none"><div><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 6:42 PM Steve Isenberg <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" href="mailto:smisenberg@gmail.com" target="_blank">smisenberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><span style="font-family:sans sans-serif">Gentlepeople, especially any chemistry or physics experts:</span></div><div style="font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><span style="font-family:sans sans-serif"><br clear="none"></span></div><div style="font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><span style="font-family:sans sans-serif">When I add 5 grams powdered fiber to almond milk, the added weight starts dropping immediately from 5 grams.<br clear="none"></span></div><div style="font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><span style="font-family:sans sans-serif"><br clear="none"></span></div><div style="font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><span style="font-family:sans sans-serif">Materials are powdered fiber supplement (Optifiber from Costco, wheat dextrin) and unsweetened almond milk (also from Costco).</span></div><div style="font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><span style="font-family:sans sans-serif"><br clear="none"></span></div><div style="font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><span style="font-family:sans sans-serif">Procedure. I take a small shot glass container and put it on the scale, and zero the scale. Add 5 grams of powdered fiber to the glass container, and it stays at 5g. I set the glass container aside.<br clear="none"></span></div><div style="font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><span style="font-family:sans sans-serif">Then I take a container of about 8 oz of cold almond milk and put it on the scale, zero the scale, and add the 5g powder into the almond milk. I don't stir.<br clear="none"></span></div><div style="font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><span style="font-family:sans sans-serif">At first the scale reads 5g, then immediately starts to drop in weight, to 4.5, 4.0, 3.8, etc within the first minute.</span></div><div style="font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><span style="font-family:sans sans-serif"><br clear="none"></span></div><div style="font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><span style="font-family:sans sans-serif">Does anyone know what's happening, why is the weight dropping?<br clear="none"></span></div><div style="font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><span style="font-family:sans sans-serif"><br clear="none"></span></div><div style="font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><span style="font-family:sans sans-serif">This is not a joke, I am asking a serious question. I can do this live over zoom sometime, and in person. Any thoughts?</span></div><div style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><span style="font-family:sans sans-serif">-steve</span><br clear="none"></div><br clear="none"></div>
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