Thoughts on Truvia and aspartame?

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  • WendyTerry420
    WendyTerry420 Posts: 13,274 Member
    Just because the FDA deems something safe doesn't mean it is.

    ^^ This is the only part I agree with.
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    Coincidentally, my first time of trying to make spaghetti was when I went off to college. I used a jar sauce (just like mom made! =P), but my struggle was getting the noodles right. They were like chewing gum. Ick! We threw it out and went to Country Kitchen.

    Awesome.

    My only real cooking disaster was serving my poor friend a VERY undercooked hamburger in high school.
  • WendyTerry420
    WendyTerry420 Posts: 13,274 Member

    And stevia/truvia still tastes like @ss to me.


    That's hilarious! To me, Truvia tastes like sugar with vanilla extract added. I don't like a lot of stevia brands, but my husband has Type 2 diabetes, and for some odd reason he likes sweet coffee and tea, so he uses stevia. Aspartame, suclarose, sugar alcohols....you name it, and it aggravates his Crohn's disease as well. Stevia is the only one that he can use. I don't always buy Truvia because it's a little pricier, but when I do, I will sometimes substitute Truvia for some of sugar in recipes. They have a baking one that is like half stevia, half sugar that I used for no bake cookies. They were half the calories and tasted delicious!
  • WendyTerry420
    WendyTerry420 Posts: 13,274 Member
    Coincidentally, my first time of trying to make spaghetti was when I went off to college. I used a jar sauce (just like mom made! =P), but my struggle was getting the noodles right. They were like chewing gum. Ick! We threw it out and went to Country Kitchen.

    Awesome.

    My only real cooking disaster was serving my poor friend a VERY undercooked hamburger in high school.

    Well at least you can fix that! Pop it in the death box or something. :laugh:
  • bagge72
    bagge72 Posts: 1,377 Member
    little do people know there is even aspartame in everyone's daily bread. Go figure.

    Yuck, not my bread.

    Barring medical issues, my opinion is if you eat SO MUCH sweetened stuff where you need a zero calorie sweetener to help you meet your calorie goal, then the problem isn't the sweetener. The problem is your eating too much crap with boatloads of sugar. Of course, most people don't want to hear that and would rather search high and low for some miracle sweetener that allows them to get their sugar fix without paying the caloric penalty.

    What would you say to the individual who is drinking a couple of diet sodas per day because it helps him or her kick their regular soda habit, resulting in a reduction in energy intake?

    Again, just my opinion but I don't think drinking diet soda is any better than drinking regular soda. Sure, less calories but it is still garbage. Americans are well trained by food companies to love everything sweet. Most packaged foods that should have no business containing added sugars are ridiculously sweet, such as tomato sauce, salad dressings, etc. As a nation we have a serious sugar problem and not much desire to change. Of course, this is just my lone opinion so feel free to consume all of the aspartame and stevia you want. :wink:

    Stupid mindless Americans
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    Coincidentally, my first time of trying to make spaghetti was when I went off to college. I used a jar sauce (just like mom made! =P), but my struggle was getting the noodles right. They were like chewing gum. Ick! We threw it out and went to Country Kitchen.

    Awesome.

    My only real cooking disaster was serving my poor friend a VERY undercooked hamburger in high school.

    Well at least you can fix that! Pop it in the death box or something. :laugh:
    I don't think we had one back then.
  • suremeansyes
    suremeansyes Posts: 962 Member
    I hate them all. Artificial sugars taste disgusting to me. I don't care about the disputed heath aspects, people can do what they want. I am just anti-eating-food-I-don't-like-the-taste-of.

    ETA: I don't even like most gums, because of sugar alcohol. So sickeningly sweet.
  • seashell709
    seashell709 Posts: 123 Member
    I can't do artificial sugars, they give me horrible headaches. I tried a quest bar for the first time and had a horrible headache because they use sugar alcohols derived from aspartame! I understand the reasoning behind having no calorie sugar because it's in a lot of things but I feel that the natural form is best for us and our bodies even though it's not low in calories.
  • WendyTerry420
    WendyTerry420 Posts: 13,274 Member
    Coincidentally, my first time of trying to make spaghetti was when I went off to college. I used a jar sauce (just like mom made! =P), but my struggle was getting the noodles right. They were like chewing gum. Ick! We threw it out and went to Country Kitchen.

    Awesome.

    My only real cooking disaster was serving my poor friend a VERY undercooked hamburger in high school.

    Well at least you can fix that! Pop it in the death box or something. :laugh:
    I don't think we had one back then.

    What if that's why you aren't dead?
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    Coincidentally, my first time of trying to make spaghetti was when I went off to college. I used a jar sauce (just like mom made! =P), but my struggle was getting the noodles right. They were like chewing gum. Ick! We threw it out and went to Country Kitchen.

    Awesome.

    My only real cooking disaster was serving my poor friend a VERY undercooked hamburger in high school.

    Well at least you can fix that! Pop it in the death box or something. :laugh:
    I don't think we had one back then.

    What if that's why you aren't dead?

    Well, it IS a death box ...
  • Strokingdiction
    Strokingdiction Posts: 1,164 Member
    I can't do artificial sugars, they give me horrible headaches. I tried a quest bar for the first time and had a horrible headache because they use sugar alcohols derived from aspartame! I understand the reasoning behind having no calorie sugar because it's in a lot of things but I feel that the natural form is best for us and our bodies even though it's not low in calories.

    Go look in your medicine cabinet and behold all the lovely human created chemical concoctions. Or do you only partake of natural remedies since anything not "natural" must be bad for you.

    Just because you have an aspartame sensitivity doesn't make it automatically bad for everyone else. Some people have peanut allergies to a completely natural protein found in some nuts and can even die from coming in contact with it. That individual sensitivity does not mean that the rest of humanity should avoid it.

    When it comes to the ingestion of foods and chemicals, it's a case by case basis and one person's experience cannot speak for the masses.

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