Whoever finds a way to make left-handed glucose economically is going to be fucking rich.
For reference, here's one place that sells it in the uk [0]. It's made in the UK as well.
Directions are:
Take 2g of Powder approximately 30 minutes before main meals.
[0] https://www.sweetcures.co.uk/products/l-arabinose-original-p...
This is a non-issue on my laptop where the cursor is quite visible and precise.
[1] Writing this post encouraged me to experiment. I guess if you vote up, you get an option to "unvote" but if you accidentally downvote, the option is to "undown". So there is more visible feedback about your vote than I was aware of. I will probably look for that going forward to ensure my voting intention was properly registered. But it's not super-obvious.
(edit: I don’t know if it’s available on android, though. I’m an iphone user myself.)
As in, if it tastes sweet but is not absorbed in the small intestine, so has "no calories", it will inevitably all pass on to the large intestine where it can be fermented.
As someone who absolutely hates the synthetic taste of aspartame etc. but has to stay on a low-FODMAP diet, I've just resigned to eating stuff with ordinary sugar and using sufficient moderation.
We got a Ninja Creami, it's not a traditional ice cream maker, you freeze these pint cups, then run them through the machine and it shaves it then blends it. My preferred recipe is: a quarter cup 0% yogurt, 2-4tbs allulose, pinch of xantham gum, the remainder fruit (strawberry, blueberry, canned low sugar pears or mandarin oranges or pineapple or peaches). This is delicious, low calorie (140-240cal per pint), and low sugar. It hits all the "ice cream" centers in my brain.
My wife takes it much fancier, she will make a vanilla base, and then often make low sugar mix ins (fudge, choc chips, caramel (with allulose), peanut butter cups (with PB2), marshmallows).
The Creami is noisy as hell for 3 minutes, and I wasn't sure how much we'd actually use it, but we've used it a lot. We got it on sale, about half price, which made it easier. Woot sometimes has them about this price (more like $100 than $200). One down side is that you basically have to re-blend it every time you want some, the remains largely freeze back into solid, though if you hit it with the microwave for 20 seconds you can kind of chunk it up and eat the flakes. Not really ice cream at that point.
It is the year 316720, and the majority of intergallactic trade is in left-handed and right-handed sugar.
https://www.healthline.com/health/food-nutrition/sugar-free-...
What's used medically for this purpose (e.g. before a colonoscopy) is an osmotically balanced solution of polyethylene glycol, typically referred to as Macrogol.
Takes a couple of hours of continuous sipping, close to 1 liter total for an adult to get everything flushed, then you'll be discharging almost clear fluid by the end.
A bit dramatic, considering these are widely food additives to things like gummy bears in similar amounts and stories abound about their effect.
A one time event is unlikely to do too much damage unless you’re already sick.
People should generally not be taking laxatives repeatedly for a prolonged period unless they have a prescribed indication.
> an osmotically balanced solution of polyethylene glycol, typically referred to as Macrogol.
It’s quite common in the US to do plain old miralax and G2 gatorade for outpatient colon prep. There is some controversy about this. But there isn’t much evidence that “osmotically balanced” (the whole concept of osmotic balance is suspect for an osmotic laxative - that works because of its inherent imbalance) has any meaningful benefit other than selling something that sounds good with little evidence.
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/21217-miralax...
People that get into trouble are typically abusing laxatives or have chronic kidney, liver or heart disease that put them at risk.
Does was 24 grams. For reference, a 12 ounce can of coke has 39 grams of sugar.
However, this was not a double blind study, so mileage my vary.
But if youre in the lab and thinking about it could ya whip us up some C-F eating/mineralizing micros? Talk about whats poisoning the biosphere..
I can't say I'm an expert, but I haven't seen anything where consuming fructose is worse overall than other sugars. Fruits for example also tend to be high in fructose, and if you're going to have sugars they tend to be one of the best ways.
you'd expect to see this if we had a purely synthetic process for the creation of glucose in the lab. but, as far as i know, we only have other biological processes that produce glucose, and as such, only produce the one isomer.
It is however very not economical to do so
If you were to produce a KG of this vs say our common art-sweetners what is the cost multipler
Though I'm not 100% sure maybe sucralose is made by enzymatically installing those halogens? I could be very wrong.
> The participants (20 per group) were given sweetener packets of aspartame, sucralose, saccharin, or stevia, each bulked out with glucose to an equivalent size, with another group that got just glucose and another group that took no sweeteners at all.
In this experiment, the artificial sweeteners used glucose as the filler. They also account for the effects of the glucose filler on the insulin response in all groups by measuring the difference in the response.
Sugar is really cheap, especially if you don’t mind which particular local source you use (sugar cane, corn syrup, etc).
The hard part is synthesis, not separation.
Apparently he got unshadowbanned recently.
"..but cannot be used by living organisms as a source of energy because it cannot be phosphorylated by hexokinase, the first enzyme in the glycolysis pathway. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-Glucose
EDIT: Ok, yeah, sorry. I'm sure some bacteria out there could do something with it and make you have an upset stomach. But it's not very likely.
For example:
> l-Glucose was also found to be a laxative
Given the above, I would guess that there's no link at all between the two. I could just be very wrong or behind the times.
Is there a calorie-free fructose isomer?