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How Sweet it is to be Natural
How Sweet it is to be Natural
If you've ever tasted stevia, you know it's extremely sweet. In fact, this remarkable noncaloric herb, native to Paraguay, has been used as a sweetener and flavor enhancer for centuries. But this innocuous-looking plant has also been a focal point of intrigue in the United States in recent years because of actions by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. picked by keroberos32 11 months ago
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 bcgrote
11 months ago
It tastes weird to me. Bring back saccharine!
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 tragluk
11 months ago


^^ And not only is it sweet, it's also gonna mutate you! Go go Xmen!

There's alot of controversy on the results of this study but the FDA maintains that there isn't enough data to be 'safe' with it. Some people have research that says it's a mutagen, others claim that THAT data is false and THEIR data says it's safe.

If I was in the FDA I would be reluctant to approve a product that has any controversy over safety. It's easier to be cautious and say No to something like a sweetener than to be wrong and allow people to harm themselves with a product that the FDA has said was safe.
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 kerobero...
11 months ago
« tragluk : http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3887402

^^ And not only is it sweet, it's also gonna mutate you! Go go Xmen!

There's alot of controversy on the results of this study but the FDA maintains that there isn't enough data to be 'safe' with it. Some people have research that says it's a mutagen, others claim that THAT data is false and THEIR data says it's safe.

If I was in the FDA I would be reluctant to approve a product that has any controversy over safety. It's easier to be cautious and say No to something like a sweetener than to be wrong and allow people to harm themselves with a product that the FDA has said was safe.
Enter the diabetes drug Avandia...
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 Kevertje
11 months ago
« tragluk :

^^ And not only is it sweet, it's also gonna mutate you! Go go Xmen!
Then again, the WHO released a report (PDF, 18MB) in 2006 claiming that stevia is safe:

"stevioside and rebaudioside A are not genotoxic in vitro or in vivo and that the genotoxicity of steviol and some of its oxidative derivatives in vitro is not expressed in vivo."
The part about stevia starts at page 124 of the PDF file.
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