#Artificial Sweeteners

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

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Get Smart; Was This Trip Necessary? (1969)

[mindblowingscience]

The human body's inability to break down sucralose, an artificial sweetener found in many zero-calorie food and drink products, is well established by scientific research. The compound is so stable that it escapes wastewater treatment processing and is in drinking water and aquatic environments. "We can't break down sucralose, and a lot of microorganisms can't break it down, either, because it's a really tough molecule that doesn't degrade easily. So there are a lot of questions about how it is affecting the environment and whether it's something that could impact our microbial communities," said Tracey Schafer, an assistant research scientist for the University of Florida's Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience and the soil, water and ecosystem sciences department, part of UF's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences.

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[thegikitiki]

Saccharin Never Tasted So Bad...

Tab Cola, 1964

[reality-detective]

What is ASPARTAME? 🤔

[greencheekconure27]

Look I appreciate that artificial sweeteners are a useful invention but can they please, please stop putting these in every.single.soft drink? I'd like to occasionally be able to get a soda I don't hate without having to closely check all the ingredient lists.

(I don't mind drinks having less sugar actually just stop replacing it with artificial sweeteners. I'm one of those people who always can taste the aspartame or sucralose or whatever and it tastes cloying and awful to me."Need to rinse my mouth asap" bad.And it's Everywhere now.I used to be able to avoid it by not drinking anything "light" or "zero" or "low calorie" but not anymore)

[shienn-sao-rean]

AuDHD and artificial sweeteners

Is it only me and my partner, or a lot of people on the autistic spectrum have a bad reaction to these artificial sweeteners?

I personally feel it like this: This disguising feeling of sweet-not really sweet-oversweet ooze coating all my throat, and I need an enormous amount of something (sparkling water or food) to banish it from my taste buds and throat as well. I love sweet things, but everyone and their dog tells me that I should stop consuming sugar with my type 2 diabetes, 172cm/100kg, hypertonia, kidney problems and POTS, and all this in my early 30s.

Yes, I know, I should, but I'm also in permanent depression with 60% of good days, partly because I toss most food restrictions. I don't consume it like all day, I don't eat only sugar. I eat a lot of protein and veggies. Try my best to reduce coffee consumption.

I just don't see the reason to deny myself milk chocolate, candies, syrup in my coffee and occasionally a sweet lemon tart or a pecan pastry. Because with all my chronic conditions, my life expectancy is quite... Not so great.

But I cannot stomach the artificial sweeteners. Stevia is simply terrible, Aspartame is not sweet at all or terrible same as Stevia. Sucralose in my L-carnitine gives me a natural strong nausea and death wish, so far it's the worse I've tried. And most of the diet stuff contains this shit. And a lot of intriguing asian-like sweets also do. Lot of these cool South Korean drinks with fruit flavours, this sorta things.

I can't afford so much fruit and have a suffocating allergy on most of them when they're just raw, not cooked (preserved or thermal, so boiled, fried, etc.), as everyone advises eating, bc of most vitamins and other useful stuff. So, I have no choice. And this is sad.

[jadeseadragon]

[suzilight]

Sucralose aka Splenda Is Genotoxic | June 2023

Me: Big Food sells us low quality at high prices that makes us gradually sicker then Big Pharma sells us high priced meds to control the symptoms until we need Big Hospital and a funeral. Think I'm exaggerating? Read on.

"When we exposed sucralose and sucralose-6-acetate to gut epithelial tissues—the tissue that lines your gut wall—we found that both chemicals cause 'leaky gut.' Basically, they make the wall of the gut more permeable. The chemicals damage the 'tight junctions,' or interfaces, where cells in the gut wall connect to each other.

"A leaky gut is problematic, because it means that things that would normally be flushed out of the body in feces are instead leaking out of the gut and being absorbed into the bloodstream."

"We found that gut cells exposed to sucralose-6-acetate had increased activity in genes related to oxidative stress, inflammation and carcinogenicity,"

"To put this in context, the European Food Safety Authority has a threshold of toxicological concern for all genotoxic substances of 0.15 micrograms per person per day," Schiffman says. "Our work suggests that the trace amounts of sucralose-6-acetate in a single, daily sucralose-sweetened drink exceed that threshold. And that's not even accounting for the amount of sucralose-6-acetate produced as metabolites after people consume sucralose."

Harvard says: "Some studies show that leaky gut may be associated with other autoimmune diseases (lupus, type 1 diabetes, multiple sclerosis), chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, arthritis, allergies, asthma, acne, obesity, and even mental illness." 

Splenda.com says: "Today, the Splenda brand is the most recognizable and iconic low-calorie sweetener brand in the world, having sold more than 100 billion yellow packets since its launch in 1992."

Michael Zeece, in Introduction to the Chemistry of Food, 2020 says: "Granulated sucralose is mixed with fillers to provide a measure for measure substitution with table sugar (sucrose). The powdered form of sucralose contains 90% bulking agents such as maltodextrin, that are a metabolizable form of carbohydrate. A 50/50 mixture of sucrose and sucralose, plus a bulking agent, is available for baking applications. This mixture reduces caloric content and enables browning reactions in baking applications."  Source

Me: Wow. Ok. 50/50 sugar/Splenda plus bulking agents for baking. Would that mean commercial baking? Processed foods? YES!!!

"Sucralose is also highly stable at elevated temperatures that are often used in food, beverage, and drug manufacturing processes so that product sweetness levels can be maintained following cooking, baking, and/or pasteurization. Sucralose also has excellent stability in low-pH products so that sweetness degradation is not a determining factor in the shelf-life of such products."

FDA says "Sucralose is a general-purpose sweetener found in various foods, including baked goods, beverages, chewing gum, gelatins, and frozen dairy desserts." 

By weight, Sucralose is about 600 times sweeter than sucrose (sugar).

 Me: Even if I don't buy or use Splenda or drink diet sodas there is a good chance that I'm still eating more than 0.15 micrograms of sucralose in "shelf stable" cookies, pastries, bread or ice cream. Big Food cuts in Sucralose/Splenda because it gives big sweetness and probably costs less than natural sugar/sucrose.

The FDA approved it for general use in 1999. They suggest it for diabetic people! No wonder Celiac Disease, Crohn's disease, and irritable bowel syndrome have steadily increased.

Never mind the Leaky Gut diseases or the malignant tumors, Splenda is calorie-free. /facepalm

[mindblowingscience]

Nothing in life comes free, not even a sugar-free drink. Scientists have now linked the artificial sweetener sucralose (sold as Splenda) to yet another potential health downside – and this time, the impact is not in the gut; it's in the brain. In a randomized crossover trial, when a group of 75 adults drank a beverage containing sucralose, they showed heightened blood flow to the hypothalamus – a part of the brain that helps control appetite and cravings.

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[thegikitiki]

Better tasting than...Anyone?...Anyone?

Diet-Rite Cola, 1965

[reality-detective]

If you drink diet soda? 🤔

[netscapenavigator-official]

I can’t be the only person in this world who thinks artificial sweetener isn’t sweet at all. That shit is so bitter. Literal gag.

[orionsangel86]

I saw your tags of the Diet Coke and Destiel meme. I’ve been off of sugar completely (aside from natural fruit sugars and even then mainly only red skinned fruit) for about 8 years now and I’ve been hearing a lot that Stevia actually isn’t all that wonderful for you either. It’s still considered to be better, but I’d be cautious with how much you use since there have been some studies done about the effects it has on gut health.

Another alternative that can be used is Monk fruit. I don’t know for sure if you can find versions of it at the store that doesn’t have a bunch of erythritol added to it. But as far as I’m aware, there hasn’t been any evidence that is in support of it causing any sort of harm, unlike stevia.

Hey, thanks! Yeah I have to avoid too much sugar as well given my weight and family history of diabetes so its a pain because I have a sweet tooth.

I didn't know that stevia had any concerning elements to it so thanks for the heads up. Ill look into it. I guess my view is everything in moderation because at the end of the day, anything in excess can cause huge health problems. Heck, that post is about carcinogens and yet doesnt mention that the biggest carcinogen of them all is oxygen. OXYGEN. The stuff we need to breath and live!

So i try not to worry about carcinogens too much because at the end of the day, cancer is an evil bitch that will get 1 in 2 or 50% of us in our lifetimes. We just gotta hope that the type we get will be easily treated.

I will look into monk fish though. Thanks!

[snaitf]

One of my favorite things I've learned recently (and by favorite I mean "well at least I know why I feel like shit every time I go to my moms house") is that monkfruit sugar is NOT an "all-natural substitute for sugar" as it's advertised. It is yet another artificial sugar that makes me sick.

Okay. Monkfruit sugar IS real and natural, and is they were actually selling monkfruit sugar itd be fine. But monkfruit sugar is several times sweeter than standard cane sugar.

And. To make it. A 1-for-1 sugar substitute. They cut it with xylitol or erythritol. As basically a filler. So that a teaspoon of monkfruit sugar is still a teaspoon. *slaps forehead*

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[sonorangoldpriestess]

I hate it so much

what "no sugar added" should mean: the natural sugars of the other ingredients like fruit are the only source of sweetness in this product

what is actually means: we added a fuckton of artificial sweeteners