Mon, Mar-22-04, 14:59
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Senior Member
Posts: 961
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Plan: Atkins / OWL
Stats: 260/208/190
BF:
Progress: 74%
Location: Bixby, OK
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Open Letter to Industry: Cut the Maltitol Crap
OK. I'm ranting here. Apologies in advance if you're bothered.
I'm tired of Maltitol (and isomalt, and lactitol, etc..)
It makes me stall. It makes me grossly uncomfortable.
This weekend, I'm at the grocery store. Thought about buying Thin Ice -- but I see a new "Mike's Light" Lemonade beverage. Packaging says 2g carbs. I buy it.
Get home, look closer -- it says 12g carbs. 2g "net". It doesn't say what the other 10g are, but I'm reasonably certain that it's maltitol.
Also this weekend, I go buy my favorite LC bagels from Nutrawize. (Before, they were 1g net per oz of bagel, or about 5g per bagel.) New packaging. I buy them. Get home, look closer. Now it's 3.5g net of carbs per 1/2 bagel. However, a 1/2 bagel serving also contains 2.5g of maltitol. That makes the bagels now 7g net per bagel, with 5g of sugar alcohols. great. Just what I need in the morning to "wake me up". (Along with all of the neighbors.)
Industry, if you're listening -- stop it.
There are plenty of sweeteners and bulking agents on the market which are better for low carbers. Yes, they may make your ingredient formulation a little more difficult, or minimize your profit margin. But you need to do it.
The problem now is that perfectly acceptable (even delicious) products are now reformulating with maltitol because everyone else is doing it.
Maltitol has a glycemic index of between 38 and 50, and 2.7 and 3 calories per gram. This makes it roughly equivalent in carbohydrate level to Rice, or lactose.
When it causes the kind of gastric distress that it does in almost everyone who eats it, why use it at all?!
Stop it.
H
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