When you eat a fake-food that is sweet and the packaging says "no sugar or artifical sweetener used" you are being told a half-truth. If the product is sweet there must be something giving the fake-food its taste! I am looking at a fake-food candy protein bar from a company giving away free samples at Runyon Canyon. The first 2 ingredients are Whey and Milk protein ( I generally like this stuff) but the 3rd ingredient is something I have never heard of, "Isomaltooilgosaccharides" I was at the park getting ready to teach yoga when I read the label and my internet connection was not good. I looked closely at the word and realized there was a part of the word I was familiar with, "saccharides". I know I heard this word before! Saccharin! This shit is flavored with a variation of the artificial sweetener saccharin.
Once I had internet access I looked up "Isomaltooilgosaccharides" and sure enough it is garbage. The first line of the wiki definition said it all, "Isomaltooligosaccharide or IMO is a mixture of short-chain carbohydrates which has a digestion-resistant property. IMO is found naturally in some foods, as well as manufactured commercially. The raw material used for manufacturing IMO is starch, which is enzymatically converted into a mixture of isomaltooligosaccharide."
Digestion resistant starch! Short-chain carbs means that the body treats this substance as if it was table sugar. Starch and sugar = same thing. Yum, so it's like a piece of white bread that you can not even digest. Nice!
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