[Sca-cooks] Splenda, was Pattern welding meets cooking. . .

[M. Traber]

We are right hand spiral critters, something about the way molecules are 
put together. Our bodies can process any substance with a right hand 
spiral, but not left hand spiral molecules.  it is pretty much ignored 
by the body, hence a sugar that has no calories or effects on diabetics. 
It is a sort of natural substance, found in fructose...which is why 
fructose is recommended to diabetics.
http://machaut.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/WEBSTER.sh?WORD=Levulose

Diabetisweet is aceta-K, same as sunette brand non-nutritive sweetener.  
it is a carbon based chemical that has a sweet taste to many people.
http://www.ific.org/publications/brochures/acekbroch.cfm

The trouble with splenda....are you useing splenda by itself, or are you 
eating a commercially made sweet? if you are using a commercially made 
sweet, they 'augment' the sweetness with maltitol which would cause the 
runs in someone with almost terminal constip at tion....when they have a 
'serving size' you better believe you stick to it...and you would not 
believe what a mess can occur when a small child decided to gorge on 
diabetic sweets......oy! when they say 3 pieces is a serving size, they 
MEAN it.



Carper, Rachel wrote:

>Um, what is a left handed sugar? 
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>I  have problems with "Splenda". To put it politly I can't leave the
>bathroom for long after eating it. Do you know what is in Diabetasweet?
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>Elewyiss
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>Diabetasweet (Acesulfame Potassium) is also a good baking substitute
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>and neither of them is "Nutrasweet" otherwise known as Aspartame, which
>gives my hubby migraines, and induces asthma attacks in many of my
>friends. Kirsten Houseknecht Fabric Dragon kirsten at fabricdragon.com
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