http://www.jbc.org/content/271/17/9982.full.html carboxymethyllysine(CML) may be a general marker of oxidative stress and long term damage to protein in aging, atherosclerosis, and diabetes. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3704564/ Studies in healthy human beings show that dAGEs directly...

how do you know they are relatively harmless?

telegraph.co.uk/news/health/children/8971466/Just-a-spoonful-of-malt-extract-could-banish-winter-sniffles.html

I am thinking of using it as a sweetener. If table sugar is okay to take, why not malt extract since it's basically sugar?

Is it okay to take it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malt#Malt_extract

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article ... /table/T1/

Avocado has 1,577 kU/100g according to the source above!

Not only that,

Oil, olive, extra virgin, first cold pressed (Colavita, Linden, NJ) has 10,040 kU/100g
Salmon, raw has 528 kU/100g

Should I be concerned?