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Re: Why Aspartame Isn't Scary
Methylesters are heat labile in aqueous solutions, other sweeteners which don't have methylesters such as sucralose probably wouldn't be affected at all by boiling. Similarly aspartame is completely …3 -
Re: Why Aspartame Isn't Scary
Wouldn't change it anymore than injesting it would. In both cases the methyl ester would be hydrolyzed. So it would convert aspartame into methanol and the dipeptide phenylaspartate. Not sure how lon…1 -
Re: Will "unnatural" factory farming produce better food?
I'm not sure why I didn't really pay much attention to the photo here but there is some weird stuff going on in there that doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Perhaps it is because it is one of those …1 -
Re: My 1,000 word essay on why BMI isn't useful for a sample size of 1
It is practical to reduce people to numbers when you are dealing with large populations. It is also practical to generate those numbers using simple formulas based on easily obtained and available da…10 -
Re: If a calorie is a calorie, why do we see this?
1 calorie is the amount of energy required to raise 1 gram of water by 1 degrees celsius. 1 Calorie (food calorie) is the amount of energy required to raise 1 liter of water by 1 degree celsius. So i…14