do you guys know about 'trutina dulcem'? It's a miracle food! I've been working with it as a low-carb sweetener in my baked goods. very difficult to bake with when replacing sugars cuz its highly alkaline instead of acid like sugar is, but I am getting better. Check it out........I'm looking to some shoe to drop somewhere, cuz its too good to be true, and I would imagine the sugar/chemical sweetener lobby would consider it a serious threat.

trutina dulcem

-- Anonymous, July 02, 2003

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That's interesting EM. I've never heard of the stuff. I poked around the FDA website and they didn't have any info on it, so it must not be on their radar screen (yet). Do you know if it's on the GRAS list? I couldn't find it there, but the company may have submitted it under a chemical name.

-- Anonymous, July 03, 2003

Sherri, according to their website, they have not been evaluated by the FDA (if indeed they are interested) and there is no mention of the GRAS list, which don't mean much to me neither, but then I realize it does to most folks.

I've had some trouble with an aftertaste with some things I've made, especially if it contains chocolate, for some reason. There is another product, the manufacturers of which I am communicating, but I haven't tasted it yet. Sounds good too, maybe tastes better, but has more carbs than TD, is more expensive and I'm confused about the carb count, which seem contradictory to me, but then I aint no scientist. I gotta get rid of that aftertaste. Ain't sellin nothin that doesnt taste excellent.

wheylow

-- Anonymous, July 03, 2003

try again:

wheylow

-- Anonymous, July 03, 2003

have no idea why my link's not workin......you'll hafta type it in i guess. www.wheylow.com

-- Anonymous, July 03, 2003

The GRAS list doesn't mean that much to me, but I'd hate to see anyone get caught up in a FDA enforcement action. They've teamed up with the Fair Trade Commission and they're really hitting the alternative health websites. A while ago it was colloidal silver, now their focus seems to have shifted to folks selling potassium iodide pills for protection against nuclear fallout. The FDA posts a list on their website every Tuesday of who they've busted in the past week and it seems like there's at least one food or other alternative health item each week.

-- Anonymous, July 04, 2003

Do you see anything in the info on the TD site that could be taken as an unprovable health claim? (course the FDA can make stuff up if the sugar lobby gets too upset). I mean it's made from organic kiwis! I dunno, all I know is that with this low-carb sweeteners deal, I don't want to get myself into a position of depending entirely on one product that they may go after. I'm trying to experiment with different options (there aren't many that aren't just chemicals from a lab basically and have proven health risks like aspartame and saccharine and now splenda.....plus those taste terrrible). Sally Fallon has some negative stuff on her site now about stevia even! It's hard to know who to believe, but I'd check out her info just cuz she's more of a mindset of natural products than the gol dern gubmint! I could just go 'reduced carb' and use honey like I always have; the other thing that I do to reduce carbs considerably is use almond flour (18 carbs per cup) instead of wheat-or-any-other-grain or most any legume (from 90 to 125 carbs per cup), so it's still quite a reduction, but the muffins with TD end up being about 5 grams each, and with honey they'd be about 16. sigh.....

-- Anonymous, July 04, 2003