By the way, There is a rather disturbing trend of manufacturers using artificial sweeters in NON-sugar free foods as a sweetness enhancer.
I have an incredibly nasty reaction to sacharrine, and a merely unpleastant reaction to nutrasweet, so I am particularly aware of when someone is using an artificial sweetner. More and more, it is sneaking into to non-sugar free foods. I found out the hard way about 12 years ago that even non-diet Coke was not safe when I was travelling in England. It usualy contained both sugar/corn syrup and saccharine. Is this still the case there? I'm bracing against the day it becomes the wisespread case here with nutrasweet. I tried that "Propel" sports drink once and made the mistake of not reading the label first... Add Propel to my avoid like the plague list. I just don't see the point in adding aaspertame to something that already has sugar in it, but maybe that's just me. Wrigley's gum used to be one of the few brands I could buy on those rare occasions when I wanted gum. Now their new "improved" recipe includes sugar, corn syrup AND aspertame/ascfultame.... Almost all those little after dinner mints the coffee shops sell have aspertame in them, even though they are not marked as sugar-free. Other candies I've encountered contain both sugar/corn syrup and aspertame, too. Even some of the stuff sold in health food stores marked "All Natural Flavor", which you might think was safe until you read the actual ingredients. Natural flavor, yes, but not natural sweetner. Aspertame is getting harder and harder to avoid. And for all you folks mentioning saccharine as a carcinogen, have you checked your toothpaste lately? Until recently, many of the liquid medications contained saccharine too, though I think a large number have switched over to sorbitol now. (At least sorbitol, while I don't particularly care for the flavor, doesn't make me extremely ill after having it.) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
