"Gregory L. Hansen" wrote:

Uncle Al <UncleAl0@hate.spam.net> wrote:

ketoneuric wrote:

An interesting article on left-handed sugar:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.11/newsugar_pr.html
Is aspartame phenylalanine ?
There are many web pages on D and L-phenylalanine.

WIRED 11.11 190 (2003) "Hitting the Sweet Spot"
p. 192, upper right, end of first full paragraph, "they're what
chemists call non-superimposable." Chiral bodies
are "not superposable" *not* "non-superIMposable."
The essence of D-tagatose is that
1) It is acceptably sweet - intensity and aesthetics
2) It is performs like cane sugar in cooking
3) It is poorly absorbed and therefore low in food calories
4) It has no apparent adverse effects and some beneficial ones
5) It is a "natural product" and therefore shuts up Enviro-whiners
and fire-breathing social advocates.
6) It is profitably commercializable
One very serious real concern (re Olestra, sucrose polyester) is
what happens to unabsorbed D-tagatose.
At least three possibilities:
1) It is harmlessly excreted when consumed to excess.
(Not a > > >chance.)
2) It is fermented by bacteria in the lower GI tract leading to
world-class farting attacks (re bean oligosaccharides).

There exists products like Beano that reduce farting. Maybe there's money
to be made on this bandwagon through an additive for D-tagatose containing
foods that will reduce farting.

Beano is a fungal enzyme mix that hydrolyzes bean oligosaccharides
to simple sugars that can be absorbed. Tagatose is already a simple
sugar - and it isn't well absorbed.

3) It is biologically inert but acts as an osmolyte, retaining
water in feces, leading to urgent voluminous loose shits.

Well, it would still be better without the explosive element than with.

You eat it to excess. Uncle Al wll eat plebeian sugar-containing
foodstuffs with restraint.

Self-restraint, eh? Uncle Al must be elitist.

Hell yes!
Uncle Al