Does artificial sweeteners are really that bad?

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I've been looking into Splenda, or rather Sucralose. It's very intresting, it is simply a chlorinated (a few OH groups are replaced with Chlorine) sucrose (common table sugar) molecule.

It is somthing like 400 times sweeter than sucrose, which means you need less of it to sweeten food/drink. It's behavour is very similar to surcose, and does appear to be less digestable than sucrose.

It was dicovered around 20 years ago, but only last year was it approved for human consumption in Europe. (Canada since '92 and the US since '99 IIRC).

It look like a winner, my only criticism is that it has a strange (slightly bitter) after taste.

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KennyR wrote:

Fluffy wrote:
Generally, in nature, where you find meth you find eth, so safe up that diet coke and add a little rum! (Rum and diet coke is even more disgusting than rum and regular coke IMHO)

Or just drink regular coke. Rum is full of sugar anyway, so it sort of defeats the point.

It is?!?!

Gah!!! that's just blown my Low Carb diet :-(

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KennyR wrote:
Actually it depends on the rum. Some kinds have virtually no sugar in them at all.

Anyway, what's the point on going on a diet if you're going to drink? Alcohol has a lot of calories too. (Indeed, it technically *is* a carb.)

Yeah, but I like ot have a glass every now and then to numb reality for a few hours.