[at-l] Slightly OT: Sugar Substitutes

[cballs at verizon.net (Curtis Balls)]

I'd recommend honey, molasses, fructose, etc., but I guess those are really
sugars too only more complex.  You could eat just raisins and fruits to
satisfy your sweet tooth. Personally I'd rather go without sweetner
altogether than add Sweet 'n Low or Equal.  May as well put crystal meth in
your veins.  Aspertame kills.  

Refined sugar is also a drug because of its physiological effects, and it's
addictive.

Drug-opposed (but even more opposed to our nation's unworkable, ineffective,
terrifically costly, and fascist drug laws) Balls



  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: at-l-bounces@mailman.backcountry.net [mailto:at-l-
> bounces@mailman.backcountry.net] On Behalf Of William Neal
> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 9:55 AM
> To: AT-L List (E-mail)
> 
> I know somebody has already commented on Sugar Substitues, but I deleted
> that info.  And since I have been "warned" about my sugar intake, I would
> like some comments on the best sugar substitutes to use.  I am not at the
> point where I have to go SUGARLESS!!! (boy that's scary), but I do need to
> cut back -- especially on sweetners for hot drinks.  And I know that some
> subs are less harmful than others.
> 
> NOW AS TO SUGAR... I still recommend powdered sugar over regular sugar.
> It
> is sweeter per unit measure than regular sugar and MORE IMPORTANTLY, it
> dissolves quicker in cold water: One chain restaurant that my parents and
> I
> use to stop had powdered sugar packets in their sugar bowls -- along with
> regular sugar and sugar subs.  I guess it was because they only had
> unsweet
> ice tea and a lot of their custormers were Southern "born and bread".
> 
> BUT first use it at home to get an idea of its sweetening power.  You will
> probably use less to get the same effect: That is, a teaspoon of powdered
> sugar will be a lot sweeter than a teaspoon of granular (regular) sugar:
> Powdered sugar is basically granular sugar ground up to a finer and thus
> more compact consistancy.  10 X is finer than 6 X , etc.  All of which are
> finer than the chunky grained regular sugar.  Note: An anti-caking agent
> is
> added to "prevent" caking.  Usually a natural substance like cornstarch.
> 
> Once you are use to it, it makes a better hiking companion than chunky
> regular sugar.
> 
> William, The Sweet Turtle
> 
> TRIVIA: Sugar at one time came is solid block/cone and you grated off the
> sugar you needed.
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