Tagatose ( low cal sweetener ) - anyone tried it?

sparklelioness
sparklelioness Posts: 600 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I had never heard of it til i saw it on the NuNaturals website... I was curious so i ordered some.

It has 6 cals per teas poon compared to sugar's 15, it tastes just like sugar, does not promote tooth decay, is low glycemic, feeds good gut bacteria, and is naturally occuring in whey and some veggies (its not some weird chemical. Not that all chemicals are weird. Some of my best friends are chemicals).

Anyway... It tastes just like sugar to me. Its 92% as sweet as sugar, so you use basically the same amount or a tinybit more, but with one third the calories, im finding it really helpful formy weight loss. I like it in my oatmeal-i like my oatmeal to be really sweet, so instead of 45 cals worth of coconut sugar, im using 20 cals worth of Tagatose. Oh-it also browns and caramelizes like sugar :) i havent tried baking with it yet, only got it a week ago, i'm still seeing what it works best in. It really tastes good tho-no weird bitter aftertaste, and this is coming from someone who hates most diet drinks, sweets, ect, cos fake sweeteners taste so awful to me.

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  • sparklelioness
    sparklelioness Posts: 600 Member
    Bump :)
  • thingeringer
    thingeringer Posts: 241 Member
    Bump
  • sparklelioness
    sparklelioness Posts: 600 Member
    One last bump-am i really the only one?
  • ssmahern
    ssmahern Posts: 1
    So do you work for NuNaturals? You have the full sales presentation down perfectly. I am an old tagatose consumer since way back when Biospherics patented a way to make it cheap and Arla foods could not commercialize it. All the things you say about it are true. I also point out it tastes like sugar and carmelizes because it IS sugar - it's just not Sucrose (cane or beet table sugar). Tagatose is a naturally occurring monosaccharide, a very simple sugar. Sucrose is a disaccharide made of 1 Fructose and 1 Glucose molecules. However, humans bodies cannot use tagatose, and our digestive tracts have no enzymes which turn it to glucose. It is partly absorbed very slowly and metabolized in the liver like Fructose. Most is never absorbed and is pooped out. Which brings me to the other feature of tagatose - foul farts and diarrhea if you eat a lot, just like most poorly digested carbohydrates. You do get used to it over time and get less diarrhea, but it will always ferment in the colon and make gas. That fermentation process by the way is what makes the healthy things your heart likes, just like oat bran. Here's a cool exercise: make a batch of oatmeal lace cookies, which are basically oatmeal/sugar/butter chips. They are indistinguishable from the regular ones, so you will pig out royally. Then your entire digestive system voids whatever was in it with heavenly force. So considering the voiding action, plus the calories your body spends doing this, you wind up with a net negative calorie count on the day, but pig out doing it. Cool eh?
  • ShaneOSX
    ShaneOSX Posts: 198
    Just posted the same thing in the Stevia thread like two seconds ago, but I use Stevia for most things and Nectresse in my coffee.
  • sparklelioness
    sparklelioness Posts: 600 Member
    So do you work for NuNaturals? You have the full sales presentation down perfectly. I am an old tagatose consumer since way back when Biospherics patented a way to make it cheap and Arla foods could not commercialize it. All the things you say about it are true. I also point out it tastes like sugar and carmelizes because it IS sugar - it's just not Sucrose (cane or beet table sugar). Tagatose is a naturally occurring monosaccharide, a very simple sugar. Sucrose is a disaccharide made of 1 Fructose and 1 Glucose molecules. However, humans bodies cannot use tagatose, and our digestive tracts have no enzymes which turn it to glucose. It is partly absorbed very slowly and metabolized in the liver like Fructose. Most is never absorbed and is pooped out. Which brings me to the other feature of tagatose - foul farts and diarrhea if you eat a lot, just like most poorly digested carbohydrates. You do get used to it over time and get less diarrhea, but it will always ferment in the colon and make gas. That fermentation process by the way is what makes the healthy things your heart likes, just like oat bran. Here's a cool exercise: make a batch of oatmeal lace cookies, which are basically oatmeal/sugar/butter chips. They are indistinguishable from the regular ones, so you will pig out royally. Then your entire digestive system voids whatever was in it with heavenly force. So considering the voiding action, plus the calories your body spends doing this, you wind up with a net negative calorie count on the day, but pig out doing it. Cool eh?

    Err, no, i dont work for them. I was just excited to find a lower cal sugar substitute that i actually liked :)

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