Adventures in sweetener aka give sweeteners a chance…

Got my bottle of monk fruit. A drop on its own, very sweet and bitter, not entirely different from stevia. Thought to try both those and Allulose with hot chocolate, using my raw cacao.

Made three cups, filled a third of each with milk and half a teaspoon of cacao, then couldn’t taste the cacao.

Regardless, added a tiny bit of stevia to one, a drop of monk fruit and a tiny bit of allulose to the other two.

Was able to add more allulose since it was very mild once mixed, as they all were.

So, initial test shows they can all play nice with milk and cacao. It’s a start ☺️

#food #sweetener #stevia #allulose #MonkFruit

Estudio U. de Chile revela que el consumo de edulcorantes altera la microbiota y el metabolismo hasta en los nietos | vía #UChileRadio

https://radio.uchile.cl/2026/04/15/estudio-u-de-chile-revela-que-el-consumo-de-edulcorantes-altera-la-microbiota-y-el-metabolismo-hasta-en-los-nietos/

#edulcorantes #stevia #sucralosa

Wer noch Kinderwünsche hat, kann sich gar nicht genug darüber informieren, welche Gefahren im Vorfeld bestehen. Sich #Zucker reduziert zu ernähren, ist sicher gut, hat aber leider auch seine Tücken. #Stevia, aber besonders #Sucralose scheinen generationsübergreifende Folgen zu verursachen.

https://www.spektrum.de/news/veraendern-suessstoffe-den-stoffwechsel-und-die-darmflora/2319452

I often try zero sugar drinks, but most of the time, taste is not that good. Zyro got it right, some others that I still want to repeat is Paperboat Jaljeera, Borecha Masala soda, Shift soda.

#stevia #ZeroSugar

This popular supplement may increase risk of birth defects, study finds
news article, 27 March 2026
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/03/260326075552.htm

"A new study reveals that high doses of antioxidants—often seen as harmless or beneficial—may actually impact future generations. "

The dose doesn't seem that high "127 mg/kg/day N-acetylcysteine (Figures 1B,C) and 0.013 mg/kg/day selenium ", that works out to a male human equivalent dose of ~ 929 mg NAC and 0.095 mg Se. The NAC + Se was given to mice orally in their water supply, with stevia added - which also has antioxidant properties.

To calculate the equivalent dose I divided the mouse dose by 12.3 and multiplied by the average male weight in the USA, 90 kg.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4804402/#T1

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I'm wondering if the mice have pheomelanin in their testes; some animals do:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/pcmr.12231

Pheomelanin regulates intracellular cysteine in male finches:
https://mastodon.social/@ScienceScholar/115872514267263073

#Supplements #NAC #cysteine #selenium #stevia #anitoxidants #health

This will also help #LinuxMobile. There are rumors that this might get integrated into #stevia 🎹 (as you might have heard at our last community get together):

https://mstdn.social/@theeclecticdyslexic/116169411669556587

We just landed initial support for Chinese (via #pinyin) and Japanese (via #anthy / romaji) in #Phosh's on screen keyboard #stevia using #uim 🥳

As our current maintainers don't speak / write these languages we appreciate testing feedback and people joining development so we can improve things further in this important area.

#LinuxMobile