Splenda in Chinese Food?

[Chaotic42]

I know, buyer beware.

I bought some of that microwave chinese food and I cooked it and started eating it. It tasted off, and I thought it might have been bad. After a few bites, I started getting that tell-tale tongue swelling feeling associated with Splenda, the most evil chemical ever devised.

Sure enough, Deathium Chloride itself, Splenda, was in it. I didn't see any warnings or anything on the box. Hopefully I didn't eat enough to really mess me up.

These criminals took me for $2.79 plus tax.

This reminds me of our workplace chili cookoff where our old admin put Splenda in her chili. Assholes.

 

[nageov3t]

what's wrong with splenda? I cook with it all the time, never had a problem.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: loki8481
what's wrong with splenda? I cook with it all the time, never had a problem.

It tastes terrible, makes me feel bad, and makes my tongue and lips feel swollen.

 

[sjwaste]

Microwave chinese food is horrible. You sort of deserved that one

 

[Midlander]

Strange that it would have any effect on your tongue (other than the taste of sweetness), considering what it is....

 

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
I know, buyer beware.

I bought some of that microwave chinese food and I cooked it and started eating it. It tasted off, and I thought it might have been bad. After a few bites, I started getting that tell-tale tongue swelling feeling associated with Splenda, the most evil chemical ever devised.

Sure enough, Deathium Chloride itself, Splenda, was in it. I didn't see any warnings or anything on the box. Hopefully I didn't eat enough to really mess me up.

These criminals took me for $2.79 plus tax.

This reminds me of our workplace chili cookoff where our old admin put Splenda in her chili. Assholes.

FAIL

 

[gorcorps]

Never had any physical problems with splenda, but it doesn't taste great as sweeteners go.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: Locut0s

FAIL

Yeah, I know. There's even a perfectly good Chinese restaurant next to the store. Allow me to be the poster child for what not to do wrt Chinese food.

 

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: Locut0s

FAIL

Yeah, I know. There's even a perfectly good Chinese restaurant next to the store. Allow me to be the poster child for what not to do wrt Chinese food.

As for splenda being in there, artificial sweeteners are in just about everything. It allows companies to widen their market (to dieter and diabetics) without changing the flavour of their product too much. When I was working in 7-11 I would get about 1 request a month for sugared gum from people such as yourself who complained about having reactions to one or more sweetener. We carried every brand imaginable but damned if I ever saw any that didn't contain artificial sweeteners of one kind or another.

 

[0roo0roo]

splenda costs more

theres nothing wrong with it. if they wanted to dick you they'd just shove a ton of corn syrup in there instead.

 

[eplebnista]

I don't like Splenda either.

 

[Hacp]

Splenda tastes horrible. UGh.

 

[episodic]

Stevia for the win. . .

 

[MovingTarget]

Great, Chinese food already does a number on my stomach (despite my enjoying eating it), but I don't want the added discomfort of spewing it out my ass later. Splenda gives me bad gas. :/

 

[tokie]

Splenda makes me sick, literally. Any food with Splenda in it gives me an upset stomach.

 

[Safeway]

I love Splenda in my tea. I don't cook with it though -- it tastes too artificial.

As for your reaction to Splenda, that is odd. It is basically sugar.

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: Hacp
Splenda tastes horrible. UGh.

 

[Baked]

I use brown sugar for my cooking.

 

[lxskllr]

Originally posted by: Safeway


As for your reaction to Splenda, that is odd. It is basically sugar.

There's no accounting for physical reactions to food. Most decaffinated coffee makes my stomach hurt. I can't think of any reason that would be, but yet it is.

 

[aigomorla]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucralose

Sucralose is approximately 600 times as sweet as sucrose (table sugar),[2] twice as sweet as saccharin, and 3.3 times as sweet as aspartame.

Splenda being made of sucralose.

However the OP is probably allergic to chlorine, which splenda has.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: Safeway
I love Splenda in my tea. I don't cook with it though -- it tastes too artificial.

As for your reaction to Splenda, that is odd. It is basically sugar.

Just because sucrose is a precursor to sucralose doesn't mean that people will have the same tolerance. I looked around on the internet, and apparently I'm not the only person with these problems, yet according to Wikipedia, there were no allergic reactions during testing.

I guess I'm just going to have to be more careful.

 

[txrandom]

Sugar > *

Only fatties use other sweeteners.

 

[Capt Caveman]

Originally posted by: txrandom
Sugar > *

Only fatties use other sweeteners.

I just ran a marathon and only use artificial sweeteners. You sound stupid.

 

[IEC]

Originally posted by: Safeway
I love Splenda in my tea. I don't cook with it though -- it tastes too artificial.

As for your reaction to Splenda, that is odd. It is basically sugar.

It is not sugar. Sure, they used to market that it tastes like sugar because it's made from sugar, but they have had the crap sued out of them all around the world for misleading advertising.

Also, use of Splenda may be bad for your gut. Granted the study is with male rats, but it is concerning that even after taking the rats off of Splenda for 12 weeks beneficial bacteria levels were still depressed, and P-gp/CYP3A4/CYP2D1 levels were elevated (limits bioavailability of drugs taken orally).

 

[tranceport]

Splenda is crap.