Microwave Popcorn Loaded With Artificial Sweetener

[accuracy]

Our microwave broke the other day. Technically it still worked, but I couldn't get it to turn off. That's not good because most foods don't need to be cooked forever.

I purchased a brand new microwave and to break it in I also bought some microwave popcorn -- Orville Redenbacher's "Kettle Korn." If you've never had real Kettle Corn, it's kinda salty and kinda sweet, and more than kinda good.

The microwave version tasted okay, but there was something just faintly off about it. I looked at the ingredients and I saw that it wasn't sweetened with sugar, but with "sucralose." Sucralose also goes by the brandname Splenda.

I was a little annoyed by this because I'm not a big fan of artificial sweeteners. I don't avoid them at all cost, but I still don't fully trust them. (You may remember when I wrote about that freaky Nutrasweet Lady.)

By the way, the name Nutrasweet is hilarious to me. NUTRA-sweet. Like it is somehow a combo of "Nutritious" and "Sweet." It might be sweet, but there ain't nothin' NUTRA in there. And the company that makes Splenda likes to tout that their product is "made from real sugar." Guess what: dog crap is made from real food, too. I still don't suggest you sprinkle it on your cornflakes, but I digress...

Back to the Kettle Corn-- you'd think they might have given me a little heads up on the box that this product (which is traditionally made with sugar) wasn't sweetened with sugar at all. But it says nothing about that.

The next time I was at the store I wanted to see if I could find a brand of microwave kettle corn that didn't use sucralose. I saw a box of ACT II KETTLE CORN -- "Old-Fashioned Sweet & Salty Popcorn." It even had a pleasant illustration of a kettle with big burlap sacks of sugar and salt behind it. Awesome. I read the ingredients: SUCRALOSE. What the F?!

I looked at the illustration again and saw that the word SALT was clearly in full view. But the word SUGAR was blocked by the kettle, so all you could see was "SU." How convenient. I suppose their argument would be that the kettle is actually blocking the word "SUCRALOSE." And we all know there's nothing better than the ol' fashioned flavor of a giant sack of sucralose. Sneaky popcorn bastards.

http://www.thesneeze.com/art/kettlecorn/kettlecorn_close.jpg

Instead of the "SU" they should just change it to "F. U." I think that's what the illustration is really trying to say to me, anyway.

(Incidentally, every brand of microwave kettle corn I checked used sucralose, whether it was low-fat or not. Not one acknowledged it.)

For more adventures in questionable food don't miss the "Steve, Don't Eat It!" section.


http://www.thesneeze.com/popcornspiracy/

[relax]

I purchased a brand new microwave

:(

[pureheart]

I think you should be more worried about the diacetyl than the sweeteners.

http://health.howstuffworks.com/popcorn-lung.htm

http://www.mindfully.org/Pesticide/2004/Microwave-Popcorn-Toxic28feb04.htm

[curtaincat]

I think you should be more worried about the diacetyl than the sweeteners.

http://health.howstuffworks.com/popcorn-lung.htm

http://www.mindfully.org/Pesticide/2004/Microwave-Popcorn-Toxic28feb04.htm

It could depend on how often people eat that microwave popcorn. I will have it once in a blue moon, say about once every two years , if that.

and also to the poster called äccuracy"" , ( sorry that is not me typing your name wrong, it is the stupid computer, switched keyboards and it still does that, so i cant be fart-arsing around correcting meself),,

Yes, Nutrasweet is really bad.
But i seem to be one of the few people that can automatically know, in my taste buds, if that crap is in any food at all.

If i eat anything that has that Nutra-sweet / aspartame crap in it,.. i straight away feel sick, my saliva becomes all extra-hot and sticky and i feel ill, immediately.

It doesn't seem to happen to other people. I avoid aspartame like the plague, i think i mentioned this on another thread about aspartame. i know i cannot take it. they also put it in "sugar-free"vitamin C tablets... and lots of things that are labelled "sugar Free" , just means it is full of aspartame.

thanks for your post :cool:

[anthony65]

I think you should be more worried about the diacetyl than the sweeteners.

http://health.howstuffworks.com/popcorn-lung.htm

http://www.mindfully.org/Pesticide/2004/Microwave-Popcorn-Toxic28feb04.htm

:eek:

Former workers at a Missouri microwave popcorn plant are slowly suffocating from breathing a chemical that was known to be toxic long before most of them got sick, according to documents obtained by the Post-Dispatch.

At least 31 people who worked at a popcorn factory in Jasper County have been diagnosed with severe lung disease linked to breathing vapors from a butter flavoring. Eight are on waiting lists for lung transplants.

Doctors spent years figuring out what had caused the workers' lungs to scar and harden, their chests to tighten and wheeze, their skin to peel off in chunks.

Microwaves are bad, bad, bad, bad.

Very bad.

[paolo]

Simple - ditch your new microwave - it's a machine for turning food into toxic waste - simple - case closed. And never go near microwavable popcorn or any such food again

[relax]

Simple - ditch your new microwave - it's a machine for turning food into toxic waste - simple - case closed. And never go near microwavable popcorn or any such food again

+1.

Also most stuff people put in there is pushing it classing it as food, never mind how its cooked.

[kiwimaj]

Simple - ditch your new microwave - it's a machine for turning food into toxic waste - simple - case closed. And never go near microwavable popcorn or any such food again

I agree ! If I was eating popcorn I would just do it the old fashioned way. Microwaves are BAD, end of ! :mad:

[unusual_suspect]

Simple - ditch your new microwave - it's a machine for turning food into toxic waste - simple - case closed. And never go near microwavable popcorn or any such food again

Yeh, I ditched the microwave years ago.

[particlepopup]

Simple - ditch your new microwave - it's a machine for turning food into toxic waste - simple - case closed. And never go near microwavable popcorn or any such food again

DEfO agree, people need to look at what microwaves do to food on a molecular level and things like miscarriage rates going up 75% since commercial introduction, nasty, nasty things. Makes a great bread bin tho!!:D

[lauren_almighty]

Since this is a popcorn topic, I just wanted to recommend popcorn for people who want to lose weight quickly (the natural stuff and not the sweetened sugary crap). I call it the popcorn diet. Instead of snacking on crisps or something really fattening with loads of addictives, try eating popcorn instead. It's completely natural and you don't have to add anything to it. I lost a couple of pounds in a week. I didn't abuse it by having it for every meal, I just had it a couple of times a week and the weight dropped off! I get mine from the local health food shop.

[i_am]

Yeh, I ditched the microwave years ago.

ditto and I don't like popcorn anyway :)

[relax]

Since this is a popcorn topic, I just wanted to recommend popcorn for people who want to lose weight quickly (the natural stuff and not the sweetened sugary crap). I call it the popcorn diet. Instead of snacking on crisps or something really fattening with loads of addictives, try eating popcorn instead. It's completely natural and you don't have to add anything to it. I lost a couple of pounds in a week. I didn't abuse it by having it for every meal, I just had it a couple of times a week and the weight dropped off! I get mine from the local health food shop.

Or just have fruit which is even better.

[lauren_almighty]

Or just have fruit which is even better.

Fruit is good but it contains natural sugars. Popcorn is so underrated.

[paolo]

Popcorn's ok in my estimation. Much better than other snacks. Get some organic if possible. Slow cook it in a lidded pan with a little oil, salt it with a little himalayan pink or sea salt or genuine maple syrup
That's it, a simple natural whole snack