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Doug Lerner - 20 Mar 2004 08:54 GMT

A few days ago I posted about bad reactions I had to a hard candy with
sucralose and sorbitol.

I decided to try a different brand of sugarless hard candy. It didn't
specifically list sorbitol or sucralose in the ingredients. In fact, the
description was pretty vague.

I called the company and they explained that there was "a tiny bit" of
sorbitol in it and "thick malt syrup" instead of sugar.

No bad reactions so far. But what is thick malt syrup? It sounds
suspiciously like sugar to me. :)

doug

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revek - 20 Mar 2004 09:50 GMT

Doug Lerner burbled across the ether:

> No bad reactions so far. But what is thick malt syrup? It sounds
> suspiciously like sugar to me. :)

It is a sugar.
http://eat.epicurious.com/dictionary/food/index.ssf?DEF_ID=2627

But hey. It didn't have any *cane or beet sugar*, which is what people
think when they see 'sugar free' on a package. Sugars come from lots of
foods, but the average joe doesn't know that so they play games.

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Ignoramus16900 - 20 Mar 2004 14:52 GMT

> A few days ago I posted about bad reactions I had to a hard candy with
> sucralose and sorbitol.
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> doug

Malt syrup is sugar, a different kind than sucrose, but it belongs to
the sugar family. It is called maltose.

http://www.edenfoods.com/issues_goodfood_barley.html

Good luck trying to find healthful junk food.

i

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