Zarina
October 20, 2004, 8:34pm
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What’s the difference lol. Sucralose which is a sweetener sounds like a sugar to me. :dubious:
Grateful for any answers.
Padeye
October 20, 2004, 8:50pm
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Sweetener just means any substance that produces a sweet taste. Sugar a group of molecules that includes sucrose and glugose. Sucralaose is sucrose with some of the atoms, carbon IIRC, replaced with chlorine so your body can’t digest it.
Padeye is correct (except that he typoed glucose).
Here are some other recent threads on the subject, with more details:
All I know is on the TV comercial, they claimed it’s made from real sugar, so it must taste good (oh, sure). So what exactly is Sucralose? How is made? Is it really low-calorie? And the big question: is it safe? Anyone whose tried it, please chime in...
Not much more to add. Most people, I’d wager, don’t really like the taste of aspartame. As well, the taste of other sweeteners (such as Sweet 'n Low) was downright pleasant. I’m assuming it’s simply the cost of the ingrediants – Nutrasweet must be...
“Roses are red
Can’t remember where I heard this, but it’s true…
This is a quite from a website claiming sucralose is bad for you. I don’t know if it’s true, but you can read it if you want.
Padeye:
Sweetener just means any substance that produces a sweet taste. Sugar a group of molecules that includes sucrose and glugose. Sucralaose is sucrose with some of the atoms, carbon IIRC, replaced with chlorine so your body can’t digest it.
Not carbons. Hydroxyl groups (OH groups).
ouryL
October 21, 2004, 3:11am
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An interesting claim
but then I read this article:
http://www.mercola.com/2002/may/8/prayer.htm
Through repeatable experiments Dr. Emoto demonstrated that human thoughts and emotions can alter the molecular structure of water. Now, for the first time, there is physical evidence that the power of our thoughts can change the world within and around us.
Run. Run far away screaming. Be Paul Revere and alert the countryside.
And he just doesn’t stop:Finally, Physical Proof that Distilled Water is Inferior
It is like taking a snapshot of the water at that moment in time. He quickly realized that the crystals that formed from water depended highly on the natural health of the water. In other words, water from natural springs, healing water sources etc, formed beautiful and complex crystalline geometries - like snowflakes.
Water that had been distilled, polluted or passed through consumption had lost its inner order. This leads to the realization that natural healthy water carries an ‘inner order’ defining its nature and properties.
Mercola’s article on Sucralose is comparatively sane, although the effects he purports to find are hard to track to any source, and several of his numbers are wrong.
Compare his page to
Position of the American Dietetic Association: use of nutritive and nonnutritive sweeteners - ADA Reports
Sucralose is 600 times sweeter than sucrose; it has a disaccharide structure in which three chlorine molecules replace three hydroxyl groups (chemical name trichlorogalactosucrose). Sucralose provides essentially no energy: it is poorly absorbed (range 11% to 27%) and excreted unchanged in the feces. Any absorbed sucralose is excreted in the urine unchanged. This sweetener is heat stable in cooking and baking. Stability testing suggests insignificant formation of compounds from sucralose degradation (4-chloro-4-deoxy-galactose and 1,6-dichloro-1,6-dideoxyfructose); these products are formed under prolonged storage at elevated temperatures and in a highly acidic environment.
Sucralose was approved in April 1998 as a tabletop sweetener and for use in a number of desserts, confections, and nonalcoholic beverages. In 1999, sucralose was approved as a general-purpose sweetener. FDA concluded from a review of more than 110 studies in human beings and animals that this sweetener did not pose carcinogenic, reproductive, or neurologic risk to human beings (102). At this time, the FDA determined that the EDI at the 90th percentile for consumers 2 years of age and older was 1.6 mg/kg bw/day. The ADI for sucralose is 5 mg/kg bw/day (103). The EDI at the 90th percentile has a sweetness that would be equivalent to the total amount of nutritive sweetener commonly added to the diet.
In a multicenter, double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized study, sucralose at 3 times the maximum EDI for 3 months had no significant effect on glucose homeostasis in individuals with type 2 diabetes (104).
Consumers can use sucralose in granular form for measuring and pouring like table sugar and in packets in powder form. The bulking agents used in these consumer products are in such small quantity that sucralose meets the FDA labeling requirements as a “no calorie” sweetener with an insignificant energy value per serving. For example, the sweetening equivalent of 2 pounds of sugar (770 kcal) is 3.8 oz of sucralose plus the bulking agent (96 kcal). Sucralose is heat stable and thus can be the sweetening agent in desserts and baked goods.