[Sca-cooks] Left=hand sugar

[Randy Goldberg MD]

> It was a chemical mirror
> image of a natural sugar molecule that acted in every way like natural
sugar,
> it tasted, looked and cooked alike in equal one-on-one proportion to the
real
> stuff.  But no living organism is capable of metabolizing it.
<snip>
> As it cannot be broken down in the body,
> everyone's urine would be as sweet as koolade.

It failed to pass FDA testing, for exactly that reason. Much like Olestra
(the "non-fat" frying medium), it is unprocessable by the human digestive
system. This leads to (a) wasting in the feces with subsequent diarrhea and
(b) wasting in the urine with subsequent dehydration. The stuff cannot be
eaten in any significant quantity without making yourself sick - and the FDA
(probably rightly) determined that people would NOT voluntarily limit their
consumption of the stuff.