Showing posts with label glucose. Show all posts
Showing posts with label glucose. Show all posts

Wednesday, 23 October 2019

glucose in artificial sweeteners

I've just been looking at the list of ingredients on a sachet of artificial sweeter. I found it is a coffee shop. The first two ingredients are dextrose and maltodextrin. If someone is trying to cut down on their sugar intake, is it not worse to have dextrose - also called glucose? It's going to have the same effect, making your blood sugar (blood glucose) levels go high. Then a drop in blood sugar level. What about diabetics? I realise that maybe there's not a great deal of dextrose and maltodextrin, with most of the sweetening coming from the two artificial sweeteners, but even so it can't be a good thing.