Posted on 10/03/2023 6:10:53 AM PDT by Red Badger
It’s quite annoying... in some countries such as Portugal I’ve noticed that they’re adding this damned stevia (and also aspartame) even to sodas that aren’t marketed as “light” or “zero” or “diet.” I was drinking a can of Fanta orange there a few months ago, and noticed that the calorie count was surprisingly low of a standard-sized can of soda, like 60 calories or something like that. I started reading the ingredients, and it had sugar AND stevia AND aspartame — pretty much the blend Coca-Cola pushed in their failed “Coca Cola Life” product here a few years back. But, again, this was in a Fanta can that wasn’t labelled as “diet” or “Zero” or “light.”
Unfortunately, almost nothing contained in this article is even a fraction of the truth. 90% of erythritol is peed out.
Erythritol is inert in the human body and is processed by benign bacteria into short chain fatty acids which are hugely
beneficial to virtually all humans. “Meta studies” )like this one) can use carefully selected other clinical studies to support the biased opinions of the author.
Eat Sucanat which is minimally processed cane sugar.
About the only trusted sweetener these days is Allulose.
It is not a sugar alcohol, it is sugar, or really, fractional sugar. It’s made from sugar and is about 70% as sweet as sugar. You can do a anything with it you can do with sugar, in cooking.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allulose
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