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From: crown@physics (Rick Crownover)
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Subject: Re: Help with Handedness and Taste of Sugars
Keywords: handedness, chirality, taste, symmetry, sugars
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Date: 9 Jul 90 21:26:41 GMT
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My understanding is that D- and L-sugars have identical flavor
--> the frequent suggestion of sweeteners with zero calories;
however, the glitch... the optical isomer sugars are not
produced abundantly by nature's plant factory, and are very
expensive to synthesize from scratch.

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