[Sca-cooks] Brown rice syrup?

[Terry Decker]

Interesting.  I've never heard of an allergic reaction to glucose.  Usually, 
when there are problems it is the over or under production of insulin which 
in turn reduces the blood glucose level by converting glucose to glycogen. 
The symptoms you list are similar to those of extreme hypoglycemia, but that 
is usually relieved by the ingestion of glucose.

Fructose is an isomer of glucose, producing a similar sweetness without 
triggering an insulin reaction.

Bear



> Nope I can not speak for the diabetic side of it simply the allergen
> side or reactive? side... Doctors said it was an allergy to sucrose, but
> my guess would be that it was a reaction to it.  She just got really
> aggressively angry, stuffy head, sleepy, didn't want to breath, didn't
> not want to breath, didn't want anyone else breathing, headache-y, kind
> of thing.  I don't want to inadvertently start off the allergy/reactive
> debate.  However one herbal suggestion that I can offer as yet another
> sugar/sucrose substitute is Stevia.  Julie's saving grace was the
> ability to use Fructose as a substitute.  I must say that I was
> extremely happy when we discovered that THAT Did NOT cause a reaction.
>
> Nichola