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   Fake Sugar - Long Ago

   

   Andrew Kantor, Oct 24th, 2003 @ 9:36am

   
   

   The very first issue of Discover magazine -- way back in the 1970s -- covered the possibilities of "L-Sugar" which used left-handed molecules of sucrose to match the taste of "real" sugar.
   
   That was the last I heard of it, till Wired and tagatose. Not exactly the same concept, but close.

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   Old news...

   

   mhh5, Oct 24th, 2003 @ 10:34am

   
   

   This sugar is a kind of sugar that humans don't metabolize. If you remember your organic chemistry, many biological compounds are "left or right" handed (aka chiral). It's slightly more complicated b/c sugars can have multiple chiral centers, but this sugar is not digestible to humans due to its chirality or handedness.
   
   The unwritten issue is that since this is a natural sugar, it has the same sweetness of regular sugar, so on a weight basis it is no more effective than regular sugar and costs more. Other artificial sweeteners are orders of magnitude sweeter on a weight basis...

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   Tagatose article

   

   John Bartley K7AAY, Oct 24th, 2003 @ 11:15am

   
   

   Have provided it to my wife, a chemist who works for a laboratory instrumentation company whose equipment is used by Big Names in the food & beverage industry. At first blush, when I mentioned the concept, she found it reasonable. I'll check back after she has actually read it.
   
   However, the responder who expected tagatose to taste exactly like sucrose may not be entirely accurate. Some of the taste processes themselves are chiral, soit might (or might not) taste the same.
   
   Time will tell; I don't think we will be seeing Sinister Coke in bottles & cans very soon.

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   But will it cause cavities?

   

   dorpus, Oct 24th, 2003 @ 11:48am

   
   

   Plenty of bacteria can digest aspartame, for example.
   
   

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   No Subject Given

   

   Crapmaster T, Oct 24th, 2003 @ 8:27pm

   
   

   Isn't this almost exactly the same thing as Splenda?

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   Rock Candy?

   

   Mrs. Crawford's Class, Aug 25th, 2006 @ 8:19am

   
   

   Do you think that you can make rock candy out of his new sugar?

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   L-Sugar

   

   Gustavo, Sep 21st, 2006 @ 9:53am

   
   

   I have found a natural source of L-sugar. It taste like normal sugar. Who would be interested in?
   Thanks. Gustavo.

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   fake sugar

   

   Dona, Oct 14th, 2007 @ 2:58pm

   
   

   Someone said fake sugar puts holes in your brain.

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