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- From: mgooley@advtech.uswest.com (Mark. Gooley)
- Subject: Re: X-Industries product sighting
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.154445.18847@advtech.uswest.com>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 15:44:45 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.024048.29383@netcom.com> cliftonr@netcom.com (Pope Clifton) writes:
- >Hot-Lix -- tequila-flavored lollipop, with worm.
- >
- >"Hot-Lix [tm]
- >"Ingredients: Hydrogenated vegetable starch hydrolysate,
- >Insect larva, natural and artificial flavors and colors."
- >
- >Some points to consider:
- >1) I particularly like the correct use of the singular "larva";
- >2) I have never heard of "hydrogenated starch hydrolysate" before,
- > despite my being an inveterate reader of ingredients lists;
-
- Standard ingredient of sugar-free candies. It's a cheap replacement for
- sorbitol: they hydrogenate starch so that its consitutent sugars become
- sugar alcohols, then hydrolyse it to separate the sugar alcohols (or
- else the other way around). Interesting that they didn't label the
- lollipop as "sugar free."
-
- It's a pretty good laxative if you eat enough of it. The sugar alcohols
- aren't easily metabolized (one's body doesn't know quite what to make of
- them), and so it's rather like eating sawdust or indigestible fiber.
-
- I used to get diarrhea every time I visted my sister when she was at
- Northwestern. Eventually it dawned on me that this was because she
- gave me sugar-free German mints, usually several ounces of them.
-
- Mark., bought a pound of sugar-free caramels yesterday
- mgooley@advtech.uswest.com
-