"JUST LIKE SUGAR" is all natural and Diabetes can drink

this!!! I posted this just in case someone like to other alternative to sugar and chemical sweeteners.

Just like sugar is a wonderful all natural alternative for those health consious people, who choose calorie restricted diet, with pure sweet flavor that tastes Just Like Sugar without any harm from some artificial sweeteners. Just like sugar is a great natural option for people suffering from Diabetes and maybe useful in restricted diet programs where standard sugar are not allowed. More...
http://www.justlikesugarinc.com/

You can read all about "Information Sheet" PDF file,
"Analysis" PDF file
"Material safety data sheet" PDF file

I been using this for 4 months and I really like! It tastes just like sugar and leaves no after tastes!!!

Read the ingredient... It's all natural and they sell it at Whole food store and Co-op!

Splenda is an organochlorine and the only one approved for human consumption. Organochlorines are mainly used as pesticides including DDT. Other chlorinated compounds include Agent Orange and PCBs.

I'm interested in learning more about this other sweetener. I've just finished a book about this - "Sweet Deception: How Nutrasweet, Spenda and the FDA are Hazardous to Your Health" by Joseph Mercola MD. My husband completed stopped using all artificial sweeteners after reading just a few pages. I followed him. I now use stevia (I can get used to the aftertaste) and sugar in very small amounts. I recommend this book for anyone looking for well referenced information re: artificial sweeteners and also the FDA.

Better just be prepared to give up your diet soda. It'll be hard to drink after reading the book. I've replaced the soda with herbal tea and am enjoying that. Love my new electric kettle!

Will keep drinking my Sprite Zero and ignoring all warnings. It is my one enjoyable drink I can have besides limited amount of fruit juice. I'm dying anyway, so why worry about a little Splenda. :shrug:

Of course, this is just my case. If you are just diabetic and planning on living a long productive life, do what ever it takes. :thumbsup:

Sometimes it's too much to do everything that's "supposed" to be good for us. I should eat more fruits and veggies! Some people think that nothing is truely unhealthy to eat but the thinking we associate with the food/drink. So enjoy your Sprite Zero. Cheers!

I get a horrific aftertaste from other sugar substitute so I'm wary.

It tastes great in the coffee! I hate after tastes from Steve and I don't like to use organic regular sugar because of calories. I swear, when I first use it, I thought I was using the real sugar!

So I ordered some from a different site that also sells Goji berries, which I bought a bag of. Once I finished submitting the order it said wait two weeks for processing. :wtf: Anyway, I'll tell you in two weeks whether I liked it. ;-)

Wow!!! Please do let me know!!! I really like it very much!

I do a lot of baking, especially around the holidays. At 19.00 a pound, I could never afford to switch over to it.

Good thing, I don't use lot of sugar. Since it's fairly new out on the market, maybe in time, price will go down.

hydroxyl groups in a sucrose molecule with something else?

In Splenda, they use chlorine ions to replace hydroxyls, which is unappetizing though not necessarily harmful -- tabel salt is sodium chloride, a combination of sodium and chlorine ions.

I know I could read the PDFs, just don't want to download three PDFs right now! :-)

It has only 4 ingredients. Orange, Crystalline chicory maltodextrin pure extract and Chicory root fiber.

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I like Splenda okay.


BTW, those women in your sig line rock.

So a little'll do I guess!!! And those women in that sig is me.

Blue

It reminded me of drinking diet drinks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevia

The FDA has blocked this in the past, violating its own rules to do so. They wanted companies to make artificial chemicals like Aspartame and Splenda (which is actually chlorinated sugar).

by health food stores who think that just because it's natural, it's good for you; are probably the ones who posted that info.

Check out this site for some balance: http://www.cspinet.org/nah/4_00/stevia.html

Canada doesn’t allow food companies to add stevia to their products. Nor does the European Union.

Last year, the scientific panel that reviews the safety of food ingredients for the EU concluded that stevioside is “not acceptable” as a sweetener because of unresolved concerns about its toxicity. In 1998, a United Nations expert panel came to essentially the same conclusion.


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Here’s what troubles toxicologists:

Reproductive problems. Stevioside “seems to affect the male reproductive organ system,” European scientists concluded last year. When male rats were fed high doses of stevioside for 22 months, sperm production was reduced, the weight of seminal vesicles (which produce seminal fluid) declined, and there was an increase in cell proliferation in their testicles, which could cause infertility or other problems.1 And when female hamsters were fed large amounts of a derivative of stevioside called steviol, they had fewer and smaller offspring.2 Would small amounts of stevia also cause reproductive problems? No one knows.

Cancer. In the laboratory, steviol can be converted into a mutagenic compound, which may promote cancer by causing mutations in the cells’ genetic material (DNA). “We don’t know if the conversion of stevioside to steviol to a mutagen happens in humans,” says Huxtable. “It’s probably a minor issue, but it clearly needs to be resolved.”

Energy metabolism. Very large amounts of stevioside can interfere with the absorption of carbohydrates in animals and disrupt the conversion of food into energy within cells. “This may be of particular concern for children,” says Huxtable.




http://www.cspinet.org/nah/4_00/stevia.html

Plus it's hard to get the balance right, so it tastes bitter if you put too much, and un-sweet if you don't put enuff

Thanks so much Rainscents! Here's a :hug: for ya!

So good to see tea, friend! :hug: back at ya too! I'll have few things to say, I'll PM in next day or two. Take care, my friend!

I posted this just in case someone like to other alternative to sugar and chemical sweeteners.

Thanks to an FDA loophole, companies can label any "serving" with fewer than 5 calories, "0 calories". In this case, the primary ingredient (by weight at least) is maltodextrin, which is a glucose polymer that breaks down into glucose. Given the half-gram serving size, corn syrup could also be labeled "zero calories":






It's probably better for diabetics, being a semi-digestible starch and not a monosaccharide, but even the manufacturer of maltodextrin doesn't say "Diabetes (sic) can drink":


Nor is it an apples to apples comparison with the "0 calories" in Splenda (which contains maltodextrin in smaller quantities), or the zero cal "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter":

Any food can be made into chemicals, it's all how it's process. I'd listen to Dr's (independent lab) who did test on this product and he said, it is chemical free!

Granted it's the sugar lobby, but they're correct about the FDA permitting "natural" claims on products that are the result of chemical synthesis. Say:

Jesus, do you people ever read what you write?

pretty cool stuff. Plus you can make an awesome margarita using it!

I've never heard of that. I use either Splenda or Steevia (sp?) when I need sugar in coffee or tea or other things. I, fortunately, am not diabetic, so for baking I use regular sugar. Because baking works scientifically, sugar substitutes don't work as well as regular sugar. I'd check this product out, though, and see if it works.

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http://www.wheylow.com/

* 100% Natural
* Tastes Exactly like Sugar...Guaranteed!
* 75% fewer Calories than sugar
* 70-80% lower Glycemic Index than sugar
* Only 1 Effective Carb per Serving
* Easy to Use! Whey Low® is a One-for-One substitute for sugar in ALL food applications. Whey Low® is perfect for baking. Cakes and cookies cannot tell the difference, and neither will you.
* So whether you are a Low-Calorie, Smart-Carb, or Low-Carb Dieter, a Type 1 or Type 2 Diabetic, or simply Health-Conscious, Whey Low® is the choice for you. So what's taking you so long? Your taste buds are waiting.


And it tastes good!

VivaLac® Inc., a family-owned Maryland corporation, is a rapidly-growing technology company with innovative, all-natural, and healthful products derived completely or in part from dairy raw materials such as milk, whey proteins, whey, or milk fermentation compounds.

just a modest proposal...

I LIKE ICE CREAM and I want to eat gallons of it and not get fat! Am I going to get scolded now? :shrug:

because it's the simplest to use as fuel, your body will typically burn sugars and carbos...

it's when combined with fats that the trouble starts... Eat fat alone and your body tends to burn it. Combine with sugar, your body burns the sugar and stores the fat.


People who have health difficulties processing sugar, of course, are another category entirely...

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