splenda = poison. huh.

[Dalya]

here's an article about asparatame. very interesting.

http://www.balaams-ass.com/journal/thew ... eetner.htm

[ifihadahifi]

i know they're all bad for you, but i didn't realize that their marketing campaign resulted from mis-naming a molecule. i thought splenda actually had more of a relation to sugar than the other sweeteners, while still being poisonous.

i only use sweeteners in iced tea because regular sugar never disolves.

Splenda does start out as sugar. It's chlorinated to substitute hydroxol somethingorothers with chlorine molecules. The Sugar Army just spins the language to make is sound like it is sweetened chlorine rather than chlorinated sugar.

My wife and I have discussed this ad nauseam. These discussions usually end in us purchasing turbinado in bulk. We use that until run out and then we cave and go back to our seperate camps.

Me = Splenda. Her = Refined Sugar.

[Dalya]

why does the sugar association care? i thought they own the sweeteners as well?

corporations and associations are annoying.

[Irock]

Chemicals in food is annoying.
I try to eat stuff that is good for me, stuff that is as close to nature as possible, especially at home. But it seems like everything is processed, it all contains chemicals and hormones, and basically it's all going to kill you. Between that and the amount of animal products in seemingly vegetarian food, I feel like I'm constantly being sabotaged. I haven't given up, but it's really like fighting a losing battle.

*adds turbinado to shopping list*

[ifihadahifi]

why does the sugar association care? i thought they own the sweeteners as well?

corporations and associations are annoying.

It's an association of sugar growers & producers. Splenda is produced by just one company. I would think Tate & Lyle (the splenda folks) have to purchase their sugar from sugar producers and they would all get along... but I don't know about that.

[Jan]

i know they're all bad for you, but i didn't realize that their marketing campaign resulted from mis-naming a molecule. i thought splenda actually had more of a relation to sugar than the other sweeteners, while still being poisonous.

i only use sweeteners in iced tea because regular sugar never disolves.

Mis-naming a molecule? This happens all the time. 99% of products with "scientific names" have little relation to their proper IUPAC nomenclature...

[mere1975]

Mis-naming a molecule? This happens all the time. 99% of products with "scientific names" have little relation to their proper IUPAC nomenclature...

Sciencebot.

- Mere "read a gossip site where someone said 'lezbot' and I thought of Dalya and Michael" 1975

[Dalya]

yeah but just because a word is long and seems scientific doesn't mean it is the scientific word. a lot of times, a molecule is "named" or patented as something, but it has a seperate scientific name describing what it is. and if it ends in "ahol" it an alcohol, or "ose" it's a sugar. the scientific name is supposed to describe the chemical bonds and the family it fits into, not what it tastes like or what it used to be. like asbestos is technically magnesium silicate. but asbestos sounds chemical and sciency. you'd never write "asbestos" in your chem lab though.

[Jan]

*cough*did chemistry at university*cough*works as a chemist*

Like I said these names have rarely anything to do with their IUPAC nomenclature, and it's not as simple as just adding "ose" or "ahol" to the chemical name.