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  Andrew Kantor, 24 Oct 2003 @ 9:36am

  
  

  Fake Sugar - Long Ago

  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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  mhh5, 24 Oct 2003 @ 10:34am

  
  

  Old news...

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

  
  

  Tagatose article

  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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  dorpus, 24 Oct 2003 @ 11:48am

  
  

  But will it cause cavities?

  Plenty of bacteria can digest aspartame, for example.
  
  

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  Crapmaster T, 24 Oct 2003 @ 8:27pm

  
  

  No Subject Given

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

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

  
  

  Rock Candy?

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

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  Gustavo, 21 Sep 2006 @ 9:53am

  
  

  L-Sugar

  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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  Dona, 14 Oct 2007 @ 2:58pm

  
  

  fake sugar

  Someone said fake sugar puts holes in your brain.

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