{"id":548,"date":"2005-12-09T22:06:05","date_gmt":"2005-12-09T22:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wordpress179\/?p=548"},"modified":"2005-12-09T22:06:05","modified_gmt":"2005-12-09T22:06:05","slug":"gimme-some-sugar-baby-phenylalanine-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/gimme-some-sugar-baby-phenylalanine-woes\/","title":{"rendered":""Gimme some sugar, baby!" – Phenylalanine woes"},"content":{"rendered":"

www.google.co.uk – phenylalanine<\/a><\/p>\n

www.google.co.uk – aspartame<\/a><\/p>\n

www.google.co.uk – saccharine<\/a><\/p>\n

I went looking for cordial at Morrisons (Safeway) last night and I had a specific goal – to find a cordial that didn’t taste like artificial sweetener. Thinking of Australia and the vast amount of lovely sugared Cotties, Kia-Ora, etc. I figured “no problemo!”.<\/p>\n

So did I succeed? <\/p>\n

Barely.<\/p>\n

Almost every cordial\/squash in this rather large supermarket is made by a single company – Robinsons<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Surely they have normal<\/i>, sugar-sweetened cordial in their range, right?”, I mused as I browsed.<\/p>\n

Bzzt! Wrong!<\/p>\n

Out of maybe thirty different cordial varieties (most from Robinsons), I found perhaps three that were not artificially sweetened. Ribena and two “High Fruit” drinks, which are basically fruit juice concentrates, were it. <\/p>\n

Not a single, “normal” cordial lived on the shelves. I grew up drinking Diet Coke, so it shouldn’t be a problem. Unfortunately, I can’t stand that artificial sweetener taste now. Diet Coke is barely passable, but in cordial.. bleh!!! <\/p>\n

I have a rough idea of what sugar does to my body, but what are phenylalanine, saccharine and aspartame doing?? <\/p>\n

There’s quite a large amount of “anti-sweetner” websites out there, which is just a touch disconcerting! Sure, it could be all nutter, conspiracy theorists, but where there’s smoke… <\/p>\n

(there’s hippy and a box of matches? :D)<\/p>\n

In other food news, Waitrose supermarket has come up with the goods! The best iced coffee I have found in this country is sold by them. It has a name like “Columbian Iced Coffee” and I think it is their own brand. A 1L clear-plastic bottle of this loveliness costs about ?1.30. Although not an Ice Break or Farmer’s Union, it is far and away the best iced coffee I’ve found here. <\/p>\n

Waitrose also appear to be the only store that stocks Vegemite in jars larger than the piddly 115g variety. A 230\/235g? jar goes for ?1.99 Beaut!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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