jinian | evil artificial sweetener (Reply)

I was going to say that I found a migraine trigger, but I'm not sure the awful headaches and lethargy of the past week-plus really crossed the line into migraine, though I saw a few sparks. In any case, please allow me to warn you all against sorbitol. It can be detected by a bland, smooth sweetness that sort of coats the roof of one's mouth, and it hides in Dreyer's "Whole Fruit" popsicles. You might think that, like the "Whole Fruit" sorbets or the Dole all-juice popsicles, they would contain fruit juice without tons of sweetening, but you would be wrong. In the case of the tangerine-flavored one, sorbitol is the second ingredient, after water. I failed to notice it until after I'd been eating the things for several days.

Fortunately, I don't like artificial sweeteners, but how irksome to have to look in detail at everything to see whether they're sneaking them in. Look I shall, though, I'm not doing three days of misery for one exposure again.