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Originally Posted by JCurwen3
"The EPA has officially removed saccharin and its salts from their list of hazardous constituents and commercial chemical products. In a December 14, 2010 release, the EPA stated that saccharin is no longer considered a potential hazard to human health."
From Wikipedia:Saccharine#Warning_label_addition_and_re moval. There isn't definitive evidence of a single artificial sweetener having adverse effects in humans, even in large quantities, as far as I know. At least not the big three: aspartame, saccharin, or sucralose.
And the sugar alcohols cause uncomfortable flatulence at best. That said, my concern - for blood sugar control purposes - with sugar alcohols would be to stick to the lower glycemic index sugar alcohols. So lactitol, xylitol, erythritol, good (very little impact on blood sugars). As far as I know, the popular sugar alcohols used for sweetening diabetic candies, maltitol and mannitol, not so good (they can raise blood sugars per unit serving about as much as glucose). |
Didn't know the consensus changed on saccharine. It still tastes horribly bitter to me. Then again, cilantro tastes like liquid hand soap and look at how many people enjoy that.
I found that managing my diabetic diet is not as simple or obvious as I had assumed. Some "healthy" substances spike my blood sugar, while a few "less healthy" ones don't or even act to reduce it. I prefer hard and fast rules, but my body keeps getting all subjective and indeterminate on me.