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[trinityvixen]

Perhaps three posts in one morning is bordering on the ridiculous, but I have had an interesting discovery, and I wanted to sound out for others who've had the same experience.

Most of you who will be reading this know that I've recently been found out as having a couple of cavities. This has made me paranoid about sugar ruining my teeth, so when I get my cuppa at work, I've stopped dumping three sugars into it and tried using the sugar substitute instead. The one they offer at my work is Sweet and Low. I started off with three to match my sugar intake, then reduced it to two, and I'm considering one, maybe even a half after this morning. My god, "Sweet and Low" is an apt name. It's amazing how little of the stuff makes a cup of tea sweeter'n candy.

Has anyone else ever used the stuff and had their teeth ache after? It was bad enough I broke out the toothbrush I got for free from my cleaning (which is a pain as I have to use bottled water to brush because of the water around here...).

Comments

[happyelfling.livejournal.com]

I think those sugar substitutes supposedly cause cancer. I'd rather stick with cavities.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I think the Sweet and Low variety must. My gums were aching, and this is in a mouth that can take 40 ounces of slurpee in half an hour without much more than a brain freeze...

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

Sweet n' Low is made of Saccharin, a sweetner not used in many products anymore because megadoses of it cause cancer in lab rats. Equal is made of aspartame, which is also in Diet Coke and most artificially-sweetened foods.

Are you sure you don't have a low-level allergy to saccharin? That might be the cause of the uncomfortable gums, more than the sweetness.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

It's a possibility. I never messed with saccharin before. I've always used sugar. I just assumed it was that the sweetness was ridiculously huge because half as much equaled three sugars.

Maybe I will try not drinking tea at work in general. It's caffeine free tea, so that's not like it's doing me any favors.

[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

It only causes cancer in lab animals! But I don't like the taste of the stuff anyway, so I'm safe.