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The holy grail of sweetners is left handed sugar. Basically a regular glucose molecule but flipped. Tastes identical to sugar but cannot be metabolized. The ca
by Workaccount2 4y ago
The 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..."