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What is the healthiest brand of non-plain yogurt?
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Ou grote
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copacetic
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This stuff:
(sodium cyclamate, acesulfame K, sodium saccharin)
does not sound at all healthy.
(sodium cyclamate, acesulfame K, sodium saccharin)
does not sound at all healthy.
Billy
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I believe the following is a contender:
It has a low glycemic index (in the 20s I believe). It achieves this by using artificial sweeteners (sodium cyclamate, acesulfame K, sodium saccharin) rather than fructose. Many foods which have a low glycemic index achieve this by using fructose as a sweetener. In my opinion this is not a good thing as high fructose consumption is unhealthy.
It contains very little fat (0.16 %).
It contains 2 % cholesterol (2 g in every 100 g tub) which is something to think about though.
It contains Abkhasian yogurt cultures.
From Wikipedia:
On October 18, 1969, the Food and Drug Administration banned its sale in the United States with citation of the Delaney Amendment after reports that large quantities of cyclamates could cause liver damage, bladder cancer, birth mutations and defects, reduce testosterone or shrivel the testes.
Your choice.
Waansin
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"large quantities" probably means you would have to eat a tonne of that yogurt ever day, literally, in order to be adversely affected 
copacetic
King of the Hippies
"large quantities" probably means you would have to eat a tonne of that yogurt ever day, literally, in order to be adversely affected
I'd imagine you are quite correct, still, why would anyone want to eat potentially toxic stuff, given a non-toxic alternative?
Billy
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"large quantities" probably means you would have to eat a tonne of that yogurt ever day, literally, in order to be adversely affected
As I said previously, "Your Choice".
Just look at the number of previously available products that caused problems and were withdrawn.
It isn't just used in yoghurt, check out the other "sweet" products that you are eating / drinking, and remember "large" in medical terms is not "tonnes".
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Ou grote
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When will margarine be withdrawn?
dj_jyno
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I can't see why. Fructose is just the proper name for sugar found in fruit and honey. I'd take fructose over artificial sweetener any day.
copacetic
King of the Hippies
As would I.
copacetic
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Yeah well, the other stuff might shrink your balls.
As said already, your choice.
I've made mine.
JerryMungo
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No more fructose in good yoghurt than a healthy piece of fruit surely!
copacetic
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Frankly, if I had a health policy, I'd avoid all those artificial sweeteners. I don't have an empirical reason for this, but they really sound poisonous, and a relative died of a brain tumour after chowing mounds of sugar substitutes most of her life (which is not proof of anything obviously, but still, can't help my paranoia...)
Venomous
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interestingly enough I met someone a few months ago who had cancer(gone at the moment). Apparently she's been told by the doc that cleaned it out that she should stay away from diet colddrinks as those sweetners could trigger it again.
She said she use to drink a lot of it before that.
