Sugar-Free Candy

[Smokescreen]

Tooth rot and diabetes. I know many regular candy eaters that have both. Sugar consumption in minimal amounts isn't as harmful, but the amounts the average person consumes is staggering. Cola and other sodas are simply a nightmare to your system.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

I have been off of junk food, chips, soda, chocolate for a few months now & luckily I have never been enslaved by the "dark master" colas and I have never felt better.

We get so numb to sweet that the real natural flavors of food are shoved into the background. Natural food on its own has amazing flavors. Stick to natural sweeteners like honey, they are simply wonderful in breads and other foods.

 

[KGMtech]

Originally Posted By: Milkman
You gotta read the reviews.


I burned 100 calories just by laughing from the reviews! Can you imagine eathing these after having corn on the cob?

 

[Food Scientist]

Originally Posted By: earlyre
Sucralose, or Splenda, is an altered form of Sucrose, that is "non-caloric" simply because the body can't process it.


Not entirely true. It is so sweet that so little is used that within a serving it provides close to zero calories, making it "non-caloric". If you look at some diet soft drinks some claim 10 calories, some claim zero. Just depends on how the company interprets labeling laws and what type of sugar substitute they use and how much they are using.

 

[Food Scientist]

Originally Posted By: SnowDrifter
Your body can't digest and process sugar free. Those molecules are close enough to the shape of sugar that they taste sweet to your taste buds, but they are different, so your body can't process and absorb them. Because of that the sugar-free solution going through your gut will osmosize the water out of your body and into your intestines. For lack of better terms it gives you diarrhea.

As to whether it wrecks your teeth, I suppose it depends on whether or not the bacteria in your mouth can metabolize it. Sugar in and of itself isn't harmful to your teeth, it's the bacteria feeding on it that is.

I will caution you with this: Do some research on the sweeteners used if you are going to be eating them on the regular. Some will cause an insulin response, some won't. If the one's you like are of the variety that will cause such a response, eat it with some food else your blood sugar will drop

How can your body provide an insulin response if your first sentence says the body can't digest and process sugar free?

From what I read the sugar alcohols (malitol, mannitol, sorbitol, xylitol [which is used in sugar free gum and supposedly has shown to be beneficial towards mouth healthiness]) is what causes the insulin response. The other artificial sugars: sucralose (Splenda), aspartame (Nutra Sweet), Stevia (plant derived), acesulfame potassium, Saccrahin (Sweet 'N Low) don't give insulin responses.

 

[Smokescreen]

SVTCobra is correct.

My link that I provided goes well into all these points at a chemical level discussion. It is very informative and I encourage all to give it a listen. Sugar is addictive like cocaine...diabetes, obesity is the result.

 

[OneEyeJack]

You should try to restrict your diet to food. All this other stuff like corn sweeteners and other fake sugars and chemicals should be avoided like the plague. When in doubt, opt for food.

Good nutrition is more expensive and more time consuming in the short run and a screaming outrageously good deal in the long run.

 

[hotwheels]

Originally Posted By: SVTCobra
How can your body provide an insulin response if your first sentence says the body can't digest and process sugar free?


Depending on the sweetener, it can be the sweet taste alone that ends up trippering an insulin response. Each sweetener is different. If you are hungry, and if you look at a window display full of food, in addition to making you salivate, your body also has a preemptive insulin response, simply because it expects food.

hotwheels

 

[Trav]

Originally Posted By: KGMtech
Originally Posted By: Milkman
You gotta read the reviews.


I burned 100 calories just by laughing from the reviews! Can you imagine eathing these after having corn on the cob?

I lost 5lb laughing at what must have happened to to my nephew who has to use an extension to use toilet paper.

He scoffed half of them a fistful at a time then drove home munching on the rest he stuffed in his pockets.

 

[spasm3]

Originally Posted By: Mr Nice
Originally Posted By: Merkava_4
What's the catch? There's gotta be a drawback somewhere. I've been eating these Halls Breezers in the Cool Berry flavor. Absolutely delicious. Says it's sweetened with glucose syrup and sucrose. Will they wreck my teeth? There's gotta be a negative somewhere.


Some sugar free candy have a laxative efect if yoy eat too much.



Look for the ingredient Sorbitol. That will have a laxative effect if more than a little is consumed.