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Well, this sucks. I use this in my coffee and a smidge on my oatmeal. Is there an artificial sweetener left that doesn't cause issues? Splenda was associated
by JustSomeNobody 4y ago
Well, this sucks. I use this in my coffee and a smidge on my oatmeal.
Is there an artificial sweetener left that doesn't cause issues? Splenda was associated with CVD so that's why I switched.
- Workaccount2 4y agoThe holy grail of sweetners is left handed sugar. Basically a regular glucose molecule but flipped. Tastes identical to sugar but cannot be metabolized. The catch is that no one has found a way to synthesize it cheaply.
- jbaber 4y agoI don't know. Trans-fat turned out to be super bad. I'm leery of trans-sugar.
- prmph 4y agoSomething tells me there is no free lunch here as well. It seems everything that gratifies the tongue is bad in some way.
- Obscurity4340 4y agoWikipedia says "L-Glucose was also found to be a laxative..."
- stavros 4y agoAspartame?
- outworlder 4y agoNo! Aspartame is known to cause serious issues for decades now, even before it was finally approved by the FDA.
- idiotsecant 4y agoOh? Who is that 'known' by? Certainly not any of the over 100 regulatory agencies around the world who have made aspartame one of the most studied compounds on earth. Unless you have PKU or migraines there is literally no widely accepted science that says otherwise.
- Axien 4y agoAspartame is linked to an 18% increase in stroke: https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/sugar-substitutes-new-cardiovascular-concerns https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/sugar-substitute...
- SketchySeaBeast 4y agoAccording to Betteridge's Law of Headlines - "Sugar substitutes: New cardiovascular concerns?" means we can assume the answer is "No".
- Axien 4y ago“Now, a large study has found a potential link between artificial sweeteners and an increased risk of strokes, heart attacks, and related cardiovascular problems (see "Fake sugars and heart health").”
- outworlder 4y agoThere's plenty of issues with the 'widely accepted' aspartame safety. There's indeed a lot of research that says aspartame is safe, but not as many if you exclude those that are not financed directly or indirectly by the industry. I will not even get into the circumstances around the Bressler report and the fact that it took a change of FDA leadership to get it approved. There's a good list here: https://www.efsa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/event/documentset/130409-p08.pdf https://www.efsa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/event/documen...
- baal80spam 4y agoIsn't this a many times debunked myth that just keep coming back?
- vosper 4y agoIf it's not too many cups of coffee each day, and just a smidge on your oatmeal, then could you use regular sugar?
- jjgreen 4y agoA decent demerara, not that it's better for you, just that it's gorgeous ...
- JustSomeNobody 4y agoI've honestly never tried demerara. That's an idea. Thanks.
- jjgreen 4y agoBillington's is the one I always look out for ...
- tharkun__ 4y agoAbstinence. Hear me out. I have never had such sweet bread as I had after being on Keto for a year. As in actual Ketosis, doctor verified. When I started eating "normal" again, lots of things tasted way sweeter than I remembered. But like saltiness and other things you get used to it.
- koolba 4y agoYou can also force the contrast by having something bitter, like unsweetened black coffee, before something not normally considers sweet, like bread.
- 404mm 4y agoI can attest to this. You don’t even have to avoid all carbs. Just cut out sweet sugary stuff and things will start tasting sweeter. It works with salt too.
- Workaccount2 4y agoI cut down on salt and eating out now kind of sucks, everything tastes like a salt stick.
- latchkey 4y agoIt is either that or stuff is loaded with butter. I can't think of a single restaurant that I've been to in the last two years that I crave going to again. I keep thinking it is the area I live in or the places I've been, but at the end of the day, I think I'm just spoiled by cooking at home.
- JustSomeNobody 4y agoI can't eat out. We've learned to cook at home a lot of our favorite foods and they taste so much better at home now. Not in any way saying we're chefs, but just the over salting and too much butter that restaurants use is not good.
- JustSomeNobody 4y agoYou're right. The reason I switched to using artificial is because I'm borderline hypoglycemic so I have abstained at periods in my life and yeah it's better. But then you really just want something sweet and down you go.
- bloaf 4y agoAllulose? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psicose https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psicose
- mrmincent 4y agoInstead of a sweetener maybe try a sprinkle of cinnamon in your oats.
- JustSomeNobody 4y agoThat's a great idea.
- Axien 4y agoUgh. Splenda has been my go to sweetener for 15 years now.
- sva_ 4y agoBack when I still used sugar I found Xylitol pretty neat. It has about 1/2 of the calories of normal sugar but mostly tastes the same (I actually prefer it to 'real' sugar by taste). There are some claims about health benefits but I remain skeptical about them. All in all, I decided pretty early on that eating stuff that tastes extremely sweet but does not cause the associated glucose spike is a weird way of fooling one's body, and it just doesn't seem like a great idea to me... Reducing sugar/overly sweet stuff intake has this nice by-effect that everything else starts tasting much, much more intense. I'm very much into savory stuff nowadays, and when I sometimes let someone trick me into trying something sweet, I usually regret it - purely based on the disappointing taste.
- jsnell 4y agoThere should be no question about xylitol being beneficial for dental health. (Not just less harmful than sugar, but actively beneficial.)
- sva_ 4y agoWhen I looked at the studies for these claims, they seemed to be of rather low quality.
- pkaye 4y agoXylitol gives me diarrhea and gas. I found out the first time when I took some candy with it before a long flight!
- kazinator 4y agoMy encounter was a xylitol-sweetened triple ice cream cone. Massive amounts of the stuff in the gut. Wasn't before a flight, at least.
- jrs235 4y agoXylitol will kill my dogs.
- causality0 4y agoSaccharin, aka good old fashioned Sweet n Low.
- 404mm 4y agoI assume you make oatmeal with water, right? Try to make it with milk (2% is fine) instead of water. Probably not the healthiest alternative but I think better than sugar or sweetener.
- JustSomeNobody 4y agoMy SO does it this way. They prefer it. But, yes, I always use water. I suppose I'll try it with milk.
- mixmastamyk 4y agoWhy artificial? Stevia is fine. Get the kind with the tiny spoon, like at Trader Joe’s. Not the kind bulked up with ery powder.