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What's in Your Peeps - Sugar or Splenda?
If there are peeps in your supermarket, it must be spring! They come around once a year, but what are they really...what's in that sugar-crusted, marshmallow-like treat from your youth? Sugar? Corn syrup? Would you guess both?
A 5-chick serving of peeps totals 140 calories and 34 grams of sugar. But now you can partake in sugar-free Peeps (available at certain drugstore and supermarket chains across the country). But proceed with caution...Although the package boasts "sweetened with Splenda," take note that each 3-chick serving also contains 23 grams of sugar alcohol, which is enough sugar alcohol to cause some very uncomfortable intestinal side effects in some people. You might want to keep it to a 1-chick Peeps serving until you know how your body handles the 8-gram dose of sugar alcohol per Peep.
When some people enjoy a certain amount of sugar-free confections that contain maltitol (or another sugar alcohol), there could be some resulting intestinal discomfort and a mild laxative effect. This is thanks to the part of the sugar alcohol that isn't digested or absorbed. It goes through the intestinal tract and starts to ferment and attract water into the intestinal tract. A certain, individualized amount of discomfort, ranging from gas to diarrhea can result, depending on the amount consumed and each person's intestinal tract.
The American Dietetic Association advises that more than 50 grams of sorbitol or 20 grams of mannitol per day can cause diarrhea. You can see the amount of sugar alcohol in a serving of each sugar-free product by reading the nutrition information label.
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A 5-chick serving of peeps totals 140 calories and 34 grams of sugar. But now you can partake in sugar-free Peeps (available at certain drugstore and supermarket chains across the country). But proceed with caution...Although the package boasts "sweetened with Splenda," take note that each 3-chick serving also contains 23 grams of sugar alcohol, which is enough sugar alcohol to cause some very uncomfortable intestinal side effects in some people. You might want to keep it to a 1-chick Peeps serving until you know how your body handles the 8-gram dose of sugar alcohol per Peep.
When some people enjoy a certain amount of sugar-free confections that contain maltitol (or another sugar alcohol), there could be some resulting intestinal discomfort and a mild laxative effect. This is thanks to the part of the sugar alcohol that isn't digested or absorbed. It goes through the intestinal tract and starts to ferment and attract water into the intestinal tract. A certain, individualized amount of discomfort, ranging from gas to diarrhea can result, depending on the amount consumed and each person's intestinal tract.
The American Dietetic Association advises that more than 50 grams of sorbitol or 20 grams of mannitol per day can cause diarrhea. You can see the amount of sugar alcohol in a serving of each sugar-free product by reading the nutrition information label.
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1 Comments:
Splenda was discovered while trying to find a pesticide and is nothing more than chlorinated sugar crystals. Nobody should be eating that chloride. This stuff should never have been allowed by FDA to hit the marketplace.
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