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I also forgot to mention that Diet Rite also has flavored sodas…white grape, kiwi strawberry, and another one I can’t remember.
Good for you. As I noted earlier, however, the Atkins diet was very effective for me once I followed the advice stated in the book and dropped pretty much all of the aspartame from my diet the first time around, so instead of it being a cop-out to explain why it isn’t his fault, it was good advice which led to an effective solution. And when I used the Atkins diet sans Aspartame, I lost nearly 70 pounds. So in that case, yes, it WAS the aspartame.
I’ve known people who have lost a significant amount of weight on some variation of just about every popular diet method out there so far…I think most of them are effective if they are followed correctly; the trick is to find one that you can do consistently. I think that holds true for most people who struggle with weight loss.
IIRC, most if not all fountain dispensed diet sodas still use saccharin, because aspartame degrades too quickly. Being that they’re not labeled, you’d better take my info with a grain of … something.
-AmbushBug
Are the bags of syrup required to include an ingredients list? I guess I can check next time at work. If that’s true about the saccharin, that’d be great - I’d have something besides water to drink at work.
Tab. Tab, Tab, Tab, Tab, Tab. I love the stuff. It has sacchrine.
I can only find it in NYC, and in one deli in Bergenfield. I go there and take the bus back with a big bag full of TAB.
I’m 99% certain you are correct – the ingredients are either on a white sticker on the Mylar-looking baggie, or printed on the cardboard box holding the baggie in place. Maybe both.
Splenda (sucralose) is made by replacing three O-H groups with chlorine atoms.
The Splenda site has a page that lists products that are made with it. I’m not sure it’s been updated recently, though.
I use Splenda in my coffee regularly now, and I also take packets with me to restaurants so that I can drink sweetened iced tea without dumping in 70 zillion sugar packets. I just wish that everybody would start using it.
I live in about as rural a situation as it possible to get and the local liquor store orders Tab specially for me by the case. I’m sure a local mom/pop grocery or liquor store in your area (if there is one willing) will do likewise.
It is addictive stuff though, isn’t it?
Stewart’s makes a line of Glass Bottled soft drinks sweetened with Splenda.
For Ice tea drinkers, Sobe-Lean is also made with splenda.
IMHOICBW Diet Rite tastes more like Coke used to taste. Coke switched to Corn syrup from sugar as their main sweetener. I prefer the lighter taste of the sugar based substitute to the heavier taste of the corn syrup.
I also think there is something in cola’s that is addictive. I have tried to switch to water and have gone as long as a week on water only until the craving for a cola or even a diet caffine free cola gets to me and I go out and plunk down seventy-five cents or so for a can of carbonated sugar water. And then they are packaged such that the more you buy the cheaper it is, so before I know it I’m back on the cola.
Is there something in the ‘and other natural flavorings?’
-Sandwriter
Oh, good God! I got an ulcer from just reading that post!
Dite rite and Diet RC both use splenda.
Report: while using Diet Coke (with aspartame), I had lost about 2 pounds per week at best on the Atkins diet this time around: I switched entirely to non-aspartame products (Diet Rite with Splenda and Sunett sweeteners) on Friday and I lost 3 pounds over the weekend. Down with aspartame!!!