ps thanks for the heads up on amino sweet and corn sugar, will keep an eye out for those as well. Although I am getting to the point where I don't want to eat anything processed at all, period.
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Sandra Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks Eric, > > I did write about the bulking agents in Stevia in the article, but didn't > know about powdered extracts that are not bulked up. I'll have to check > that out. And you are right, I totally missed sucralose. I'll have to > revamp the article (or write a follow up), but unfortunately I'm deep in a > series of articles on GMO's right now and it will have to wait until I > finish those. > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Eric Roberts < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Good article...you should add that there are powdered stevia extracts > > available as well. Some are combined with a food grade carbohydrate so > > that they can be used spoon for spoon like sugar...but these are also > > available as a pure extract. So it's not just the liquid form. I have > > been using stevia products since I was diagnosed with diabetes in 2000. > > NuNaturals is a good one when you can find it. Whole Foods usually > carries > > it. GNC will sometimes carry it. I have even found it on occasion at > the > > local grocery store, but not very consistently. You may wish to amend the > > article to include Splenda as well. While Splenda is sugar, it has a > > couple of molecules swaped so our taste receptors still recognize it, but > > it doesn't trigger a metabolic response, so it just passes through us (so > > we are told). As this is still a relatively new product, the jury is > still > > out as far a any long term side effects go. > > > > Eric > > > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Eric Roberts < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I didn't hear about the amino sweet thing...*shaking head* Gotta love > > > Monsanto... > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Sandra Clark <[email protected] > > >wrote: > > > > > >> > > >> I actually wrote a blog post about sweeteners, which might answer some > > of > > >> these questions. > > >> > http://healthyfoodnaturally.com/2011/12/06/sweeteners-whats-in-a-name/ > > >> > > >> The corn industry is trying to call HFCS "Corn Sugar" and aspartame > is > > >> trying to re-label themselves as "Amino Sweet" > > >> > > >> Sandy Clark > > >> > > >> > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:346130 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
