Lite Sugar

[Pilchard]

My staff aways buy "Lite Sugar" for the office Tea and coffee.

They tell me it's lower in calories than normal sugar.

The only part of the packet I can read (all in Thai) is the ingrediants which are 99.5% sugar !.

Does any one know if this just a gimick ?

Thanks

Pilchard

[gennisis]

My staff aways buy "Lite Sugar" for the office Tea and coffee.

They tell me it's lower in calories than normal sugar.

The only part of the packet I can read (all in Thai) is the ingrediants which are 99.5% sugar !.

Does any one know if this just a gimick ?

Thanks

Pilchard

It will be a con.If its 99.5% sugar(sucrose) then its calorific value is as normal.

If the 0.5 is nil calorific value then the product will be 0.5%less fattening.

Dont think that would make much difference.Only the Aspartene type sweeteners give a low calorific value

[Crossy]

You may wish to re-read the ingredients

The 'Lite Sugar' we get is an aspartame (Nutrasweet) based artificial sweetener (had to get one of the Thai chaps to read the label).

I'm mildly allergic to the other common sweetener (sodium saccharin) so had to be certain exactly what was in the stuff.

[Pilchard]

Na , Gennisi is right. Got hold of the Packet as apposed to the sachet and it says in English

"Lite sugar is a low-calorie sugar with the same sweetness as normal sugar, making it ideal for weight or claorie watchers as a condiment in preparing food and beverages hot or cold" .( any spelling errors are mine, cant type).

Above that it say Ingrediants Sugar 99.5% ,Aspartame 0.5%

[Crossy]

Na , Gennisi is right. Got hold of the Packet as apposed to the sachet and it says in English

"Lite sugar is a low-calorie sugar with the same sweetness as normal sugar, making it ideal for weight or claorie watchers as a condiment in preparing food and beverages hot or cold" .( any spelling errors are mine, cant type).

Above that it say Ingrediants Sugar 99.5% ,Aspartame 0.5%

Totally bl00dy pointless then. I'll have to get the office chaps to re-read the labels on the stuff we get (may not even be the same stuff), unfortunately not near the office at the mo.

[Jdietz]

Nah check again

The sachets contain half the weight in sugar as the normal ones. The other half is replaced by the 0.5% artificial sweetener.

You know that stuff is unbelievably sweet, in tablet form it's also over 95% filler, otherwise you won't be able to see them.

So in fact you get half the sugar 'dose' with the same sweetness.

Edited May 19, 2007 by Jdietz

[raro]

Lite Sugar indeed contains Aspartene and I personally hate the taste of it. Whenever offered, I pretend to be allergic to Aspartene and tell the staff that they must be very careful serving this to someone they don't know.

I do the same with Sodium Glutamate. I became quite good at faking an allergic reaction already...I am also "allergic" to mayonnaise and other food I do not like ....hehehe

As to my experience the "allergic" pretext goes down best with any staff and needs no further explanation.

[cathyy]

Lite Sugar indeed contains Aspartene and I personally hate the taste of it. Whenever offered, I pretend to be allergic to Aspartene and tell the staff that they must be very careful serving this to someone they don't know.

I do the same with Sodium Glutamate. I became quite good at faking an allergic reaction already...I am also "allergic" to mayonnaise and other food I do not like ....hehehe

As to my experience the "allergic" pretext goes down best with any staff and needs no further explanation.

As a person with actual allergies I find this offensive. If not liking it isn't good enough for your staff, get new staff that will respect your preferences. It's part of being the boss. Pretending to be allergic, and then having no reaction if you actually ingest some of it trivializes the lethal potential of a true allergy. It insults the intelligence of your staff, too, as some of them probably have seen an actual allergic reaction before. You can't fake hives, nor turning blue in anaphylactic shock.

And why must the staff be careful serving aspartame to somebody they don't know? Because you don't like the taste of it? Thanks for making life just a little bit harder for diabetics. Let me know where you work so I can NOT go there...