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From: richard@sequent.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Nutrasweet Dangers?
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Date: Wed, 25-Jan-84 05:43:48 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 25 05:43:48 1984
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Personally, I liked cyclamates and saccharin better than aspartame(*).

I suppose I've gotten cynical, but some of the cancer studies done
make me believe that *everything* causes cancer in some degree.

Of course, alpha-D-(glucopyranosyl)-beta-D-fructofuranose** is a chiral
molecule (essentially meaning non-othogonal).  I understand someone is
working on its enantiomer - maybe they'll call it levose.  This chemical
should either taste *exactly* like sugar, or not like it at all.  This
will depend on whether the sweetness receptors are stereo-isometric
dependent.  Since the enzymes that break sugars hgave been shown to be so
dependent, it might be the perfect sugar substitute.

Well, I've had fun playing with my big words, I'll give someone else a
shot now.

			from the confused and bleeding fingertips of
				...!sequent!richard

* Nutrasweet is a trademark of G.D.Searle&Co.
** Also known as table sugar, or sucrose.