donna wrote:Coming from a Lucozade generation and now finding it increasingly difficult to buy my preferred energy hit without ‘added sweeteners’ Homo Saps have been utilizing cane sugar for hundreds of years, and cane sugar was at one point a major element in global trade "give me sugar every time" Cane sugar Sugar is processed sucrose which has been extracted from sugarcane, a tropical plant Corn Sugar is by definition extracted from corn (HFCS high fructose corn syrup) Sweeteners’ are manufactured utilising new technologies Accidents are best avoided Aspartame was discovered by accident albeit along with another instance of a sweetener discovered following the by-product of research into a new fertiliser (at the atomic structure) There is a school of thought that says Aspartame when ingested turns to formic acid ( found in some ants) and then into formaldehyde which has an association with embalming fluid

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