RE: was box cake...- artificial sweetners & bad ingredients

[Guest guest]

Most of the diet drinks that use sucralose (Splenda) use acesulfame-K

(acesulfame potassium) which is shady and not adequately studied.  Whole Foods

lists it as one of the unacceptable ingredients for the foods they carry. 

Insterestingly enough, sucralose is on the list. Here's the entire list:

 

 

Unacceptable Ingredients for Food

The following list contains ingredients that Whole Foods Market finds

unacceptable in food products. We reserve the right to change this list at any

time.

 

acesulfame-K (acesulfame potassium)

acetylated esters of mono- and diglycerides

ammonium chloride

artificial colors

artificial flavors

aspartame

azodicarbonamide

benzoates in food

benzoyl peroxide

BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole)

BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene)

bleached flour

bromated flour

brominated vegetable oil (BVO)

calcium bromate

calcium disodium EDTA

calcium peroxide

calcium propionate

calcium saccharin

calcium sorbate

calcium stearoyl-2-lactylate

caprocaprylobehenin.

certified colors

cyclamates

cysteine (l-cysteine), as an additive for bread products

DATEM (Diacetyl tartaric and fatty acid esters of mono and diglycerides)

dimethylpolysiloxane

dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate (DSS)

disodium calcium EDTA

disodium dihydrogen EDTA

disodium guanylate

disodium inosinate

EDTA

ethyl vanillin

ethylene oxide

ethyoxyquin

FD & C colors

fois gras

GMP (disodium guanylate)

hexa-, hepta- and octa-esters of sucrose

hydrogenated fats

IMP (disodium inosinate)

irradiated foods

lactylated esters of mono- and diglycerides

lead soldered cans

methyl silicon

methylparaben

microparticularized whey protein derived fat substitute

monosodium glutamate (MSG)

natamyacin

nitrates/nitrites

partially hydrogenated oil

polydextrose

potassium benzoate

potassium bisulfite

potassium bromate

potassium metabisulfite

potassium sorbate

propionates

propyl gallate

propylparaben

saccharin

sodum aluminum phosphate

sodium aluminum sulfate

sodium benzoate

sodium bisulfite

sodium diacetate

sodium glutamate

sodium nitrate/nitrite

sodium propionate

sodium stearoyl-2-lactylate

sodium sulfite

solvent extracted oils, as standalone single-ingredient oils (except grapeseed

oil).

sorbic acid

sucralose

sucroglycerides

sucrose polyester

sulfites (sulfur dioxide)

TBHQ (tertiary butylhydroquinone)

tetrasodium EDTA

vanillin

 

RE: box cake recipe- no oil or eggs!

 

Tuesday, September 9, 2008, 9:16 PM

 

--- On Tue, 9/9/08, Richard Gertler <travler2 wrote:

 

 

Richard Gertler travler2

 

 

This is true, but the majority of diet sodas now use Splenda and no longer

contain aspartame.