Carbs in Yeast?

Aspartame is bad stuff. It breaks down into methanol and
formaldehyde, especially when heated. Both these substances are
toxic. I have two relatives who were really sick and the docs
couldn't figure out why. For different reasons, each of them did
something that stopped their aspartame intake and within days, they
were just fine. One of them was told he only had weeks to live. He
was drinking several diet cokes each day. When they moved him from
one area of the hospital to another, the new area didn't allow stuff
like diet coke and he started feeling better within days. The first
couple of days he felt worse -- they surmised later he was going
through a type of withdrawal. Then very shortly he went from a
sickly, pale, one-foot-in-the-grave tragedy to a happy, rapidly
recovering, middle-ager. He eats just about anything he wants now,
EXCEPT anything with aspartame in it. A few months after his
recovery, he drank diet coke for a day to see if it did anything, and
he said it was like he had the flu for a couple of days, Anyway, it
sounds like bad stuff to me. I realize this is a pretty small sample
size -- anecdotal information at best. But,... I don't NEED
aspartame, so why use it? It amazes me that the stuff is allowed to
be sold. Plus, Atkins says, depending on the person, aspartame can
give you a blood sugar spike just like sugar.

On Apr 4, 9:08 pm, "Mel" wrote:
Sugar-free Jello has aspartame in it.

On Apr 4, 7:40 pm, Jo Anne wrote:



In article .com,
"Mel" wrote:

Just out of curiosity, why don't you just use sugar-free Jello? It
seems to have 10 calories and 0 grams of carbs per serving.

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Probably had undiagnosed PKU, every aspartame containing label warns
against consumption by PKUs.

Lew wrote:
| Aspartame is bad stuff. It breaks down into methanol and
| formaldehyde, especially when heated. Both these substances are
| toxic. I have two relatives who were really sick and the docs
| couldn't figure out why. For different reasons, each of them did
| something that stopped their aspartame intake and within days, they
| were just fine. One of them was told he only had weeks to live. He
| was drinking several diet cokes each day. When they moved him from
| one area of the hospital to another, the new area didn't allow stuff
| like diet coke and he started feeling better within days. The first
| couple of days he felt worse -- they surmised later he was going
| through a type of withdrawal. Then very shortly he went from a
| sickly, pale, one-foot-in-the-grave tragedy to a happy, rapidly
| recovering, middle-ager. He eats just about anything he wants now,
| EXCEPT anything with aspartame in it. A few months after his
| recovery, he drank diet coke for a day to see if it did anything, and
| he said it was like he had the flu for a couple of days, Anyway, it
| sounds like bad stuff to me. I realize this is a pretty small sample
| size -- anecdotal information at best. But,... I don't NEED
| aspartame, so why use it? It amazes me that the stuff is allowed to
| be sold. Plus, Atkins says, depending on the person, aspartame can
| give you a blood sugar spike just like sugar.
|
| On Apr 4, 9:08 pm, "Mel" wrote:
|| Sugar-free Jello has aspartame in it.
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|| On Apr 4, 7:40 pm, Jo Anne wrote:
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|||| In article .com,
|||| "Mel" wrote:
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||| Just out of curiosity, why don't you just use sugar-free Jello? It
||| seems to have 10 calories and 0 grams of carbs per serving.
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I was surprised when I started looking around at the various sweeteners and
found all of them had maltodextrin and some even had plain glucose as
fillers! BTW: remember when saccharine came in "tiny pills"? I do.

Pat in TX

Pat wrote:
I was surprised when I started looking around at the various sweeteners and
found all of them had maltodextrin and some even had plain glucose as
fillers! BTW: remember when saccharine came in "tiny pills"? I do.

Pat in TX



Yes, and the surprise and awe that that those tiny pills evoked from the
customers.

It wasn't all a good reaction. Some found it hard to believe that so
little a sweetner could replace so much sugar. Some didn't like sweetner
"pills".

There are the liquid sweetners now which take anywhere from a drop to 10
drops to sweeten the average cup of coffee.

Well, there have been some such liquid sweetners for a long time,
actually. I remember ladies reaching into their handbags at lunch for
either their liquid sweetner dropper or their little sweet pills.

Some prescription drugs are largely filler by weight or volume. 20 mg of
something is only .020 grams, and the capsule may easily hold 0.5 grams.

On Thu, 5 Apr 2007 15:08:11 -0600, "Pat" wrote:

I was surprised when I started looking around at the various sweeteners and
found all of them had maltodextrin and some even had plain glucose as
fillers! BTW: remember when saccharine came in "tiny pills"? I do.

Pat in TX

Here in Australia, we can still get saccharine pills and even Splenda
pills at most supermarkets. I use the pill form because it has much
less filler than the powder version. One pill (equivalent 1 tsp
sweetness) has less than 1/10g carb compared to the measured version
which is 1/2g carb per teaspoon. If I'm making a recipe that doesn't
have a 'liquid' portion to dissolve the tablet in, I just crush them
in a tiny mortar and pestle I own - or even between 2 spoons - and add
the crushed powder and it works just fine.

Aramanth