Comments on: Is The New Truvia Free Of Side Effects? http://www.myprosperousworld.com/life/is-the-new-truvia-free-of-side-effects.html Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:35:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: yoda http://www.myprosperousworld.com/life/is-the-new-truvia-free-of-side-effects.html/comment-page-1#comment-707 yoda Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:53:46 +0000 http://www.myprosperousworld.com/body/weight-loss/is-the-new-truvia-free-of-side-effects.html#comment-707 To say that Truvia "comes straight from a plant known as the stevia plant" is not exactly correct. According to scientists who have analyzed Truvia, it has only 9/10 of 1% Rebiana and masking agent. Rebiana is commonly attributed to a stevia extract, the sweetest part of the leaf. However, Rebiana is not an ingredient in the stevia leaf, nor does it exist in nature. Contrary to what many believe, Rebaudioside A (Reb A), not Rebiana, is one of the 11 glycoside compounds within stevia leaves and is about 400 times sweeter than sugar and is naturally produced by the action of sunlight on the leaves. Rebiana, on the other hand, is produced by the action of stringent alcohols and chemicals on various stevia glycosides. In 2008, Cargill coined the name "Rebiana" for their chemically derived product. The "No Questions" letter from the FDA says that Rebiana contains ethanol and methanol residues. The other 99.1% of Truvia is erythritol, a sugar extracted from corn with alcohol. Cargill, whose product it is reported that their corn has 30% genetically modified organisms (GMOs). If people have reactions to sugar alcohols, like erythritol,which can be bad for the diegestive sytem, they may have reaction to Truvia, which is an erythritol product. For some anecdotal evidence that reactions may exist in reference to Truvia go to http://side-effects.owndoc.com/truvia-side-effects.html To say that Truvia “comes straight from a plant known as the stevia plant” is not exactly correct. According to scientists who have analyzed Truvia, it has only 9/10 of 1% Rebiana and masking agent. Rebiana is commonly attributed to a stevia extract, the sweetest part of the leaf. However, Rebiana is not an ingredient in the stevia leaf, nor does it exist in nature. Contrary to what many believe, Rebaudioside A (Reb A), not Rebiana, is one of the 11 glycoside compounds within stevia leaves and is about 400 times sweeter than sugar and is naturally produced by the action of sunlight on the leaves. Rebiana, on the other hand, is produced by the action of stringent alcohols and chemicals on various stevia glycosides. In 2008, Cargill coined the name “Rebiana” for their chemically derived product. The “No Questions” letter from the FDA says that Rebiana contains ethanol and methanol residues.

The other 99.1% of Truvia is erythritol, a sugar extracted from corn with alcohol. Cargill, whose product it is reported that their corn has 30% genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

If people have reactions to sugar alcohols, like erythritol,which can be bad for the diegestive sytem, they may have reaction to Truvia, which is an erythritol product. For some anecdotal evidence that reactions may exist in reference to Truvia go to

http://side-effects.owndoc.com/truvia-side-effects.html

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