Posted on 08/19/2022 12:02:17 PM PDT by Red Badger
For the past several years I’ve only used stevia, the only safe one.
To sweeten or not to sweeten, that is the question…🤔
Aspartame isn’t harmless.
I take my artificially sweetened drinks and point my squeeze bottle of stevia at them and count to 6.
I fully expect stevia plants to sprout on top of my grave.
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I didn’t notice in the article what the daily dosage was. Unless “sachets” is some scientific measurement I’m not aware of.
Remember the hit on Cyclamates in the 60’s? Rats given the equivalent of 50 gallons of soda per day.
Oops forgot to mention monk fruit which appears safe as well, both are from natural sources. Monk fruit is much more expensive however. I saw one study that suggested stevia might have anticancer properties, although that might have been the whole leaf which includes a bitter fraction that is removed from store bought stevia.
Some will go into denial, others dismissive, while some will get downright angry.
This is not new.
Accept that drinking flavored water (aside from tea & coffee) arose strictly from advertising designed to change consumption and, consequently, buying habits.
Frankly, when I went cold turkey I felt quite stupid (normal reaction for all).
“Recent research has found that people who drink diet soda sweetened with aspartame are twice as likely to be obese as those who do not. “
This is because the obese are trying to reduce their calorie intake and choose diet over regular.
And because they use diet as a treat or dessert rather than a calorie laden one.
The no sugar drinks aren’t making you fat. The laws of physics still apply.
They’re still better than NutraSweet.
The only time I tried fresh stevia, everything tasted metallic for a couple weeks after. So I ate less, and lost weight. Stevia diet works.
The stevia didn’t make that first drink sweet either.
I hear the same about margarine it’s one molecule from being plastic?.
The study was published in Cell and sponsored by Equal and Stevia....LOL Just kidding
I think that “bitterness” might be one of those genetic taste bud type things, kind of like some people dont know that cilantro tastes like lemon Pledge on an anus. When I eat stevia leaves there is a tiny taste maybe like a glass of weak tea. Some people just seem to get hysterical about the bitterness but I cant find it.
I frequently chew a stevia leaf with a mint leaf.
Stevia has a bitter after taste to me.
This year I would get a numb / pins and needles feeling below the knees and it would get worse as I slept that it would wake me up.
I stopped drinking Sunkist Orange zero sugar and in less then 2 days I feel great. It uses Aspartame and delicious phenylketonurics and phenyalanine.
Mayo Clinic: Federal regulations require that any beverage or food that contains aspartame bear this warning: “Phenylketonurics: Contains phenylalanine.
Phenylalanine can cause intellectual disabilities, brain damage, seizures and other problems in people with PKU.
Hmm... this may explain many things......
Erythritol - being one of the most harmless of sugar replacements,
is not without a few negative side effects.
But they are not that bad. It's a risk/reward trade-off.
It is very similar to Xylitol - but slightly better.
(And it used to be more expensive - but it's come down in price.)
I use it.
Erythritol Side Effects : Good, Bad...
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NOTE: I also occasionally use Stevia - now that my stomach
no longer gets upset by it. My stomach did when I first tried it years ago.
I don’t like cilantro and hot and spicy. It really restricts me when my friends want to go to a Mexican restaurant.
I have not eaten margarine for 50 years. These days I fry with olive oil with a bit of butter added for flavor. I find I use less than a stick of butter a month.
I remember my mother canning with a pressure cooker. We ate canned (bottled) corn and green beans, as well as more acid foods. She made jams and jellies put in small glass containers with a 1/4 inch of hot parafin poured on top. You have to be careful to fill the jar so NO fruit is on the area where the parafin needs to touch to seal properly.
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