Great blog post! Would love to read the GMO articles as well
On Jan 30, 2012, at 9:07 AM, Sandra Clark <sclarkli...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks Eric, > > I did write about the bulking agents in Stevia in the article, but didn't > know about powdered extracts that are not bulked up. I'll have to check > that out. And you are right, I totally missed sucralose. I'll have to > revamp the article (or write a follow up), but unfortunately I'm deep in a > series of articles on GMO's right now and it will have to wait until I > finish those. > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Eric Roberts < > ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > >> >> Good article...you should add that there are powdered stevia extracts >> available as well. Some are combined with a food grade carbohydrate so >> that they can be used spoon for spoon like sugar...but these are also >> available as a pure extract. So it's not just the liquid form. I have >> been using stevia products since I was diagnosed with diabetes in 2000. >> NuNaturals is a good one when you can find it. Whole Foods usually carries >> it. GNC will sometimes carry it. I have even found it on occasion at the >> local grocery store, but not very consistently. You may wish to amend the >> article to include Splenda as well. While Splenda is sugar, it has a >> couple of molecules swaped so our taste receptors still recognize it, but >> it doesn't trigger a metabolic response, so it just passes through us (so >> we are told). As this is still a relatively new product, the jury is still >> out as far a any long term side effects go. >> >> Eric >> >> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Eric Roberts < >> ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: >> >>> I didn't hear about the amino sweet thing...*shaking head* Gotta love >>> Monsanto... >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Sandra Clark <sclarkli...@gmail.com >>> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> I actually wrote a blog post about sweeteners, which might answer some >> of >>>> these questions. >>>> http://healthyfoodnaturally.com/2011/12/06/sweeteners-whats-in-a-name/ >>>> >>>> The corn industry is trying to call HFCS "Corn Sugar" and aspartame is >>>> trying to re-label themselves as "Amino Sweet" >>>> >>>> Sandy Clark >>>> >>>> >> >> > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:346142 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
