Are you using the “healthy” “natural” sweetener Stevia???? It’s made from the Stevia Plant,,,, right???
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 18:41
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Are you using the “healthy” “natural” sweetener Stevia???? It’s made from the Stevia Plant,,,, right???
Right, but wrong on the healthy, natural. It contains Erythritol, which makes “Stevia Brand” sweetener a poor nutritional choice. Please read below.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/05/26/what-is-erythritol-doing-in-vitamin-water.aspx
You totally misrepresented or misunderstood that article at Mercola.
It is NOT Stevia that contains erythritol, it is VitaminWater. Stevia IS an all-natural, healthy sweetener and does NOT contain other ingredients unless ADDED by a reseller. You can buy pure Stevia various places online or in health stores, and there is NO erythritol in it.
Read the article again, and pay attention to exactly what has the erythritol in it.
I did make a mistake and I am glad you brought it to my attention.
I use Truvia Brand sweetener and have for a year or so… thinking that I was being healthy. I am now obsessed with reading labels and noticed that Truvia contains Erythrotol. I will repost with an explanation.
Thanks,
Snow
Wow, this is the first time in a long time that I have heard anyone take accountability for making an error, and doing it in a graceful manner, too!
Your credibility has gone up with me 10 fold, Snow.
What happened to my comment? Anyway, it is NOT Stevia that has erythritol, it is the product VitaminWater.
Weird… there were no comments and now they’re back.
Sometimes they get hung in cyberspace, next time just reload your browser and voilà!
Yet another person posting their ridiculous spin on an already ridiculous spin zone article. Even the insane article gets it wrong when it claims “Sugar alcohols are neither sugar nor alcohol.” What? I find it incredibly difficult to believe that this “Dr.” Mercola has never had a very basic introductory chemistry course. Is he even a true “Dr.” as in physician? M.D.?
LOL!
He is correct in saying
“Despite the name, sugar alcohols are neither sugar nor alcohol.”
You are simply too biased to understand.
Sugar alcohols do not contain alcohol in the traditional sense of the word, as in the alcohol you find in beer or wine. Instead, the word alcohol refers to its chemical structure. And he is referring to sucrose; sugar. He is simply saying for those who have never heard the term.
If it were sugar (sucrose) then it would not be used as a sugar substitute, now would it?!
What is incorrect is your assumptions. You have taken the obvious intent of his simple explanation and turned it into a rather complex and convoluted false argument.
Nice try, not!
I am no chemist but I have, in my medical studies, taken several chemistry courses. I have dissected sugar alcohols and other compounds from quark to mole and can tell you every single interaction every element has with another and precisely what form the molecule or compound will take on down to the degree of angle in three-dimensional terms. I knew exactly what I’m talking about.
If, as you concede, these molecules are truly sugar and alcohol in the chemical sense… doesn’t that uh… make them so in the literal sense? Your argument is similar to one who proclaims loud and proud that a scientific theory is “just a theory” because the term is used outside of it’s colloquial context.
Not buying it? For hell’s sake, try wikipedia man. Rocket surgery this is not…