Ah, Valentine’s Day – that annual celebration of love, flowers, heartfelt cards, expensive dinner … and truly heroic quantities of refined sugar. Chocolate hearts, boxed pralines, pink icing piled centimetres high. For one day, we all agree that sugar is an acceptable language of love, and on February 15th, we quietly pretend not to remember what we did.
This makes the timing of a recent, well-meaning concern about NANO SOMA® rather ironic.
According to some, people should avoid NANO SOMA because it is a product derived from sugar cane – a plant which many individuals have labelled as toxic and addictive.
At this point, we pause, gently set the Valentine’s sweets aside, and talk about biology, chemistry, and a classic case of mistaken identity.
Sugar Cane Is Not Sugar
Sugar cane is a plant – more precisely, a tall grass. It grows in the ground, uses photosynthesis, and – this is important – it is not refined sugar. Refined sugar is the end product of industrial processing: crushing, heating, filtering, crystallising, bleaching, and removing everything except sucrose.
Holding sugar cane responsible for refined sugar is rather like blaming grapes for alcoholism or sunflower seeds for deep-fried junk food.
The plant itself is not poisonous. It is not addictive. And it is certainly not a bag of Valentine’s Day sweets.
What Policosanol Actually Is (and What It Is Not)
The policosanol used in NANO SOMA contains no sugar at all. Zero. Zilch. Nix.
Policosanol is a mixture of long-chain alcohols – also known as plant waxes. These compounds are found in the outer protective layer of plants. In sugar cane, they occur in the waxy coating of the peel, not in the juice, not in the sugar, and not in anything sweet.
Sugar and Policosanol are chemically and functionally unrelated.
To suggest that policosanol is dangerous because sugar cane can be processed into refined sugar is rather like avoiding broccoli because it contains carbon – just like coal.
The Valentine’s Day Irony
This is where it becomes mildly amusing.
Every Valentine’s Day, millions of people willingly consume refined sugar — the very substance often associated with metabolic dysfunction, inflammation, and addictive eating behaviour — without so much as raising an eyebrow.
Yet a supplement that contains no sugar whatsoever, derived from a non-toxic plant wax, is suddenly labelled “evil”, simply because the word sugar appears in the name of the plant.
That is not science. It is semantics.
I understand the impulse of doctor colleagues to protect their trusting patients. That is admirable. But fear should never replace basic chemistry or accurate sourcing.
NANO SOMA does not deliver sugar.
NANO SOMA does not raise or spike blood glucose levels.
NANO SOMA does not exploit addictive pathways associated with refined carbohydrates.
What NANO SOMA does contain is a carefully extracted, sugar-free, non-toxic plant compound whose biological effects have been well studied and researched— entirely independent of Valentine’s Day confections.
A Final Thought Before the Chocolate Runs Out:
If sugar cane were truly “toxic and addictive”, entire cultures that have chewed raw sugar cane for centuries might have noticed by now.
So, this Valentine’s Day, enjoy your flowers, share your affection, perhaps even indulge in a sweet treat – but let us not confuse a plant with what industry chooses to make from it.
And let us certainly not confuse plant waxes with sweets.
After all, love may be sweet – but science should be precise.
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