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Anonymous
Is brown sugar any better than regular table sugar?

Or should I just stick with Splenda?
>> Anonymous
splenda = cancerous. would you rather have a few extra calories, or god damn cancer?
>> Anonymous
>>153057

It's never caused cancer in a human being.
>> Anonymous
>>153057

Water also causes cancer. I know this because the internet told me so.

Splenda is completely fucking safe you fearmongering shitstain.
>> Anonymous
>>153057

>>153063
>>153067
>>153069
>>153073
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>> Anonymous
>>153057

8/10, good work.
>> TEEJ !Pfv0vkh2h.
>>153073
Signed. It won't kill you, nor will it give you cancer.

Don't worry, /fit/'s got a lot of paranoid, ignorant, under-educated buttholes, but you just have to learn how to ignore them and eat splenda.
>> Sponge !!5qxfxHYSQxJ
I fucking love sugar cubes.
>> Anonymous
>>153073

Well, that's different than modern sucralose.

The current fear is that because sucralose is created by splicing chlorine molecules it makes it bad for you. What ignorant people don't realize is that chlorine splicing occurs in a load of natural foods, there are chlorine reactions that occur to form things like leafy greens...there's chlorine in basic salt. It's harmless.

Hell, the human body is extremely resilient. Even if this stuff DID cause cancer, the amounts most people consume it in would still be harmless. You use like 1/3 packet of Splenda to sweeten most drinks or cereals and I don't know ANYONE who puts it in all their meals every single day. There are lifetime smokers out there who never get cancer, so I highly doubt a little bit of fake sugar is going to hurt anyone who doesn't have some extremely rare allergic reaction to it.

From a culinary standpoint, though, Splenda sucks shit for most recipes. It doesn't cream with butter like sugar does and it cooks differently in a lot of baking recipes.

And, OP, brown sugar is the same as regular sugar, just like brown rice is pretty much the same as white rice aside from having added fiber and B vitamins.
>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
As long as we're talking about sweetener potential myths, can someone confirm something?

Our high school biology teacher put us all off drinking any diet coke etc., as he said that the phenylalanine in them blocks metabolic pathways, potentially causing cancer or other problems. Looking on the net though, it's only mentioning problems for people with a specific disorder "phenylketonuria (PKU)". Does anyone know if it causes problems for regular people too?
>> Anonymous
>>153086

NaCl IN MY SALT?!?!?
>> Anonymous
Fuck splenda, Aspartame, and all the other artificial sweeteners. I use Stevia myself. All natural sweetener that's 300 times sweeter than sugar.

I use Stevia in all my baking, cooking, and drinks. I'll only use sugar in recipes that absolutely need it. Some things just cannot be done without sugar.
>> Anonymous
>>153094

Guess it can be a bit of a personal thing really. I know some people who have been drinking diet coke day in day out, but the second I drink too much I find myself getting a bit dizzy and light-headed (and I don't suffer from any disorder) .


Just remember anything in excess will do you harm, just don't indulge in that stuff, it should be a treat, so having a few cans once in a while shouldn't hurt.
>> Anonymous
DEXTROSE YO!
>> Anonymous
Inorganic clorine containing molecules are not dangerouse because they cannot cross cell walls. Suger is an organic compound (obviously) splenda is made by splicing chlorine molecules onto sugar, hence splenda Can cross cell walls, and is therefore potentially dangerous. Salt is an inorganic chlorine comound, which is why it isnt harmful. pcbs, and dioxins are two widely known and feared organic chlorine compoiunds, known to be extremely carcinogenic, so its understandable that people are worried about other, organo-chlorine compounds. That said, splenda passed fda testing, so its atleast mostly safe, furthermore the smounts needed to sweaten things are miniscule (its something like 100 times sweater then sugar) and the chorine doesn't get stored in fat cells as it is in the case of diocins and pcb's. putting all of that together it probably is bad for you, but it probably isn;t as bad for you as sugar.
>> Anonymous
splenda is tasty but it gives me a headache
>> Anonymous
153105

there have been studies that indicated that stevia was atleast as dangerous as other low calorie sweateners. I can;t recall them off of the top of my head, but i can tell you that it failed to pass fda testing (iirc). the safest artificial swetener is acesulfame potassium; its one of the oldest, its nonreactive, it is not matabolized by the body, and there have never been any scientific studies that found it to be dangerous. Unfortunately it is also considered by many to be the worst tasting seatener.
>> ­
Xylitol, Erythritol. Two Naturally occurring sweeteners.

One teaspoon (5 mL) of xylitol contains 9.6 calories, as compared to one teaspoon of sugar, which has 15 calories. Xylitol contains zero net effective carbohydrates,[citation needed] whereas sugar contains 4 grams per 5 mL. Xylitol has virtually no aftertaste, and is advertised as "safe for diabetics and individuals with hyperglycemia". This is because sugar-alcohols have less impact on a person's blood sugar than regular sugars.[4]


Erythritol ((2R,3S)-butane-1,2,3,4-tetraol) is a natural sugar alcohol (a type of sugar substitute) which has been approved for use in the United States[1] and throughout much of the world. It occurs naturally in fruits and fermented foods [2]. At industrial level, it is produced from glucose by fermentation with a yeast, Moniliella pollinis[3]. It is 60-70% as sweet as table sugar yet it is almost non-caloric, does not affect blood sugar, does not cause tooth decay, and is absorbed by the body, therefore unlikely to cause gastric side effects unlike other sugar alcohols. Under U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) labeling requirements, it has a caloric value of 0.2 calories per gram (95% less than sugar and other carbohydrates), but some countries like Japan label it at 0 calories. European legislation actually considers it at 2.4 kcal/g but pending discussion will certainly achieve a 0 kcal/g caloric value by 2009.


The more you know. Now stop complaining about artificial stuff and buy some of this.
>> Anonymous
>>153141

Stevia was banned by the fda so aspartame could be passed instead. Both were being introduced at the same time and there was money behind aspartame. I know it sounds like a conspiracy theorist thing, but it is true and you can track it down yourself.

They didn't even do a comprehensive study on the plant. The "tests" were also flawed. If they tried to retest it now it would pass easily. But will they? Probably not without a lot of pushing and money.

Stevia has been used for hundreds of years with no side effects. It's legal in other nations but America. Fucking Coca Cola is making a new soda with Stevia as a sweetener. They would like to sell it in the US but cannot until they can convince the FDA to make it legal.

There is nothing dangerous about the plant. It's just a naturally sweet plant, just like the plants you get sugar from. Hundreds of years of use and nothing has gone wrong, yet it's banned and poison like aspartame gets passed. It's bullshit!
>> Anonymous
>>153203

Meh. Doesn't sound farfetched. Congress declared that tomatoes and a bunch of other botanical fruits were legally vegetables to avoid international taxes on shipping and receiving fruits. They do all sorts of things like that to benefit the economy.
>> Anonymous
Stay away from sugar and artificial sweeteners. If you like to taste sweet things, eat some fruit.

White sugar is made by extracting the molasses from sugar cane, and then the sugar is bleached through some processes which result in the white sugar you see.

Brown sugar is simply this sugar with some of the molasses added back. Molasses does contain certain nutrients, some fiber and even calcium, but the amounts are negligible, and for it to make any difference you would have to eat an absurd amount of sugar.

tl;dr
brown sugar only tastes better, sugar and artificial sweeteners are cancer - avoid
>> Anonymous
Fake sugar being cancerous is just a myth /fit/ jerks off to. Truth:

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=291569
>> Free Pepsi !!iXxa+hO94Mg
And what do you need this brown sugar for?