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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 150669" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>One thing I've found with Splenda and my low-carb diet in general - no sour taste in my mouth.</p><p></p><p>Have you ever noticed how about ten minutes after you have something high carb or sugary, you get a sour taste in your mouth? It's a combination of your salivary enzymes and bacteria, digesting the carbs. I'm finding that if I **** a diabetic sweet (made with Isomalt) or after I've had my frappe using Splenda, I don't get that taste.</p><p></p><p>Isomalt is great, as far as taste goes. But you have to be very careful to not have much because it causes diarrhoea if you eat more than a couple of sweets. It's still sugar, but a mirror image molecule which your taste buds recognise but which can't pass through your stomach and get used by your body. Your saliva enzymes don't recognise it and neither do any bacteria in your mouth. As a result, it goes through your stomach, into your small intestine, but chemically it's still sugar and needs to be diluted to a certain low concentration, or it will **** water back from your body into your small intestine (osmosis). Hence the diarrhoea. It's the GI tract equivalent of what happens in the kidneys of uncontrolled diabetics - all that sugar not allowing water to be absorbed, and hence a lot more fluid being passed than would otherwise happen.</p><p></p><p>I do agree with the principle of eating healthy, instead of calling it a diet; I just happen to be on a DIET (as distinct from eating healthy!) because of doctors' orders. I hate it, but I can do it. I just don't like what happens in general when you diet. I'm hoping it's not happening now - that slowed metabolism which just makes the next diet that much harder.</p><p></p><p>When you think about it, it's scary just how much industry has been developed, all with the aim of helping us stuff ourselves but still shed kilos. It somehow seems immoral, in a world where over half the population are starving.</p><p></p><p>OK, I can think that - but I still will use Splenda!</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 150669, member: 1991"] One thing I've found with Splenda and my low-carb diet in general - no sour taste in my mouth. Have you ever noticed how about ten minutes after you have something high carb or sugary, you get a sour taste in your mouth? It's a combination of your salivary enzymes and bacteria, digesting the carbs. I'm finding that if I **** a diabetic sweet (made with Isomalt) or after I've had my frappe using Splenda, I don't get that taste. Isomalt is great, as far as taste goes. But you have to be very careful to not have much because it causes diarrhoea if you eat more than a couple of sweets. It's still sugar, but a mirror image molecule which your taste buds recognise but which can't pass through your stomach and get used by your body. Your saliva enzymes don't recognise it and neither do any bacteria in your mouth. As a result, it goes through your stomach, into your small intestine, but chemically it's still sugar and needs to be diluted to a certain low concentration, or it will **** water back from your body into your small intestine (osmosis). Hence the diarrhoea. It's the GI tract equivalent of what happens in the kidneys of uncontrolled diabetics - all that sugar not allowing water to be absorbed, and hence a lot more fluid being passed than would otherwise happen. I do agree with the principle of eating healthy, instead of calling it a diet; I just happen to be on a DIET (as distinct from eating healthy!) because of doctors' orders. I hate it, but I can do it. I just don't like what happens in general when you diet. I'm hoping it's not happening now - that slowed metabolism which just makes the next diet that much harder. When you think about it, it's scary just how much industry has been developed, all with the aim of helping us stuff ourselves but still shed kilos. It somehow seems immoral, in a world where over half the population are starving. OK, I can think that - but I still will use Splenda! Marg [/QUOTE]
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