Thoughts on Sucralose or Aspartame in diet food?

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  • leahraskie
    leahraskie Posts: 260 Member
    I'd think if it made you hungrier any food with sugar would also make you hungrier. The body treats artificial sweeteners like sugar but they are not absorbed so no calories. Sometimes you can get insulin spikes while eating artificial things especially if that's the only thing you've eaten that day.

    Breakfast makes me hungrier, doesn't mean I stop eating it when I have time for it.
  • CrabNebula
    CrabNebula Posts: 1,119 Member
    I prefer things sweetened with stevia when I can get them. Otherwise, I'm looking at a 2lt bottle of generic Diet Mt. Dew on my desk that I've managed to easily get 3/4 of the way through during my shift. Yeah, I really don't care about artificial sweeteners too much.
  • marmaladepixie
    marmaladepixie Posts: 83 Member
    Sucralose or any of the loses just give me migraines and intestinal problems. I try to avoid them, they are even in a lot of OTC medications and vitamins too
  • stevencloser
    stevencloser Posts: 8,911 Member
    I started drinking diet soda a few days ago, because I finally found a brand that tasted just as good as the regular version. Ironically was the local noname brand that managed to do where the Coca Cola company (tm) and Pepsi failed miserably.
    Anyway, the next morning I was bloated to hell. But now I'm fine.
  • Sarasmaintaining
    Sarasmaintaining Posts: 1,027 Member
    edited April 2015
    I don't mind artificial sweeteners at all and actually prefer things like coke zero to regular coke. It's really a taste preference thing-I could fit in the regular coke into my calorie allotment but I don't like the taste as much, so I'd rather have a diet/zero version.
  • TheNerdyMonkey
    TheNerdyMonkey Posts: 31 Member
    Sucralose actually cause acne and cystic acne (face and/or body acne) read labels because a lot of low calorie items lack protein, fiber and/or other needed nutrients. Just make sure you don't deprive your body of what it needs just for lower calories.
  • jonnie256
    jonnie256 Posts: 169 Member
    Diet wild cherry Pepsi is by far the best tasting diet drink.#IMHO
  • dutchandkiwi
    dutchandkiwi Posts: 1,389 Member
    edited April 2015
    One of my goals was to cut down on sweet stuff full stop. Breaking the sugar habit in total. I have no issue what so ever with artifical sweetners as such and it may help to break the sugar habit, but for me it was a case of make of breake. So I chose to only have fruit as sweets, simply because they have so much more positive nutritional parts ( the for me very important fibre for instance) that the fruitsugar is acceptable.
    The result is that I find anything sweet(ned) horrible a year later. Most sweetned foods have started to taste bitter to me. Stuff I used to love I simply cannot stomach anymore.
  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,222 Member
    Not something I generally eat, so don't care, I will say most times when I've consumed foods that have artificial sweeteners the taste was pretty nasty. My wife drinks diet pepsi and I still after all these years can't stand the taste, so for me, never going to happen.
  • stevencloser
    stevencloser Posts: 8,911 Member
    TheNerdyMonkey wrote: »
    Sucralose actually cause acne and cystic acne (face and/or body acne) read labels because a lot of low calorie items lack protein, fiber and/or other needed nutrients. Just make sure you don't deprive your body of what it needs just for lower calories.

    Pubmed finds absolutely no source when searching for sucralose and acne together so where did you get that from?
    And what are you talking about "it lacks protein and fiber" the same is true for water.
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  • donnasinc
    donnasinc Posts: 114 Member
    I suggest you watch the documentary "Fed Up".... Very interesting angle on sugar.
    Personally, I say clean eating all the way!
  • stevencloser
    stevencloser Posts: 8,911 Member
    donnasinc wrote: »
    I suggest you watch the documentary "Fed Up".... Very interesting angle on sugar.
    Personally, I say clean eating all the way!

    No thank you, I'd rather have actual science.
  • becky_shrinks
    becky_shrinks Posts: 12 Member
    jgnatca wrote: »
    As a diabetic type 2 in remission, I use artificial sweeteners almost exclusively. I can't tell the difference any more. Artificial sweeteners do not make me hungry. Intensive cardio makes me hungry.

    I have pcos and was told to use them by a dietician. I was so used to them that the taste of real sugar used to gross me out :-) if I picked up my hubby coffee by accident I used to gag lol
  • Cortelli
    Cortelli Posts: 1,369 Member
    These threads always make me wonder if I have defective taste buds. Sucralose, aspartame, saccharine, etc. taste fine to me - no bitterness or other surprising taste. So I don't really give a fig whether its in something I'm eating or not.
  • HeySwoleSister
    HeySwoleSister Posts: 1,938 Member
    Cortelli wrote: »
    These threads always make me wonder if I have defective taste buds. Sucralose, aspartame, saccharine, etc. taste fine to me - no bitterness or other surprising taste. So I don't really give a fig whether its in something I'm eating or not.

    I think it's a genetic thing, like the variances in how people taste cilantro. I can't taste ANY sweetness in any of the artificial sweeteners, just acrid bitterness. Plain yogurt tastes sweeter to me than a yogurt with an artificial sweetener. I don't think it's TEH EEEEEEBIL DEATH, but it ruins my eating experience, which to me is the greatest crime a foodstuff can commit.
  • NicoleMcQuillen
    NicoleMcQuillen Posts: 43
    Try some plain yogurt with some honey in it =) sprinkle a little cinnamon. I use honey and cinnamon in something at least once a day and it's been great for weight loss! =)
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