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Which Sweetener to Use?
Courtesy of the Feingold Association of the United States
There’s so much we don’t know about sweeteners, but the Association does have the accumulated experience of many thousands of families. Combining experience with what we do know, here’s a suggested guideline for choosing sweeteners:
Acceptable choices
The following are healthy choices:
- Sugar – granulated, confectioner’s, or brown
- Cane sugar crystals
- Turbinado and various raw sugars
- Honey, Molasses, Pure maple syrup
- Rice syrup and similar syrups
- Stevia (an herbal no-calorie sweetener found in the supplements section of your supermarket or a health food store)
Acceptable, but don’t overdo
When a sugar name ends in “ol” that means it is an alcohol sugar. Too much has a laxative effect.
Less desirable
Questionable
- Acesulfame-k (Sunett, Sweet One)
- D-tagatose (Naturlose)
Do not use
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on Aug 30th, 2008 and filed under Older Articles.
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I used to haul aspartame from Monsanto in St. Louis Mo. to Hatco Chemical in Fords NJ.to be processed and then it was hauled to University Park Il. where the Nutra Sweet company was located. I was told by employees at Hatco that it would use chemicals found in Phosgene Gas as well as other chemicals. Hatco produced Phosgene Gas for the military in years passed. Most of the plant there was contaminated with these and other dangerous chemicals. At the Nutra Sweet Plant in Illinois employees had to wear filter masks as to not ingest the dust, also they had to wear gloves, not to keep from contaminating the Nutra Sweet, but to keep from being poisoned. I have never or will use it in my food or drink Read The Labels Please!
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My vote is for honey, its easy to keep and tastes awesome… especially healthy if you get high quality raw organic honey.. yummy!
What does anyone know about Sun Crystals and erythritol?
I find this whole blog extremely interesting, some very thought provoking material.
I try to steer away from sweetners all together. They just don’t taste good. When I taste them in tea and other drinks, I really lose a desire to finish my drink.
We use the Walmart brand of sweetener (Equate). It taste the closest to real sugar that I have ever found.
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