Baking with Sugar Twin? : Kitchen Talk Forum : Active Low-Carber Forums

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Fri, Mar-19-04, 09:45

mikeybro1

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Baking with Sugar Twin?

Can you bake with Sugar Twin? I read about mixing Splenda and Sugar Twin and I bought both to try.

But I was wondering if Sugar Twin is one of those sweeteners that can't be exposed to heat, or it loses it's sweetness......anyone know?

Thanks!

Lisa

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Fri, Mar-19-04, 10:34

FrecklFluf FrecklFluf is offline

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Since you are in Canada, Sugar Twin is made from cyclamate, which, IIRC, is heat resistant. Here in the US, it's made from saccharin, which is not.

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Fri, Mar-19-04, 11:00

Karen

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You sure can! Here's a post on the combination of Twin and Splenda. Alone, you still get a sweetener aftertaste.

http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthre...synergistically

Karen

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Fri, Mar-19-04, 14:35

mikeybro1

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Thanks so much! I had read that link, Karen, but somewhere read something else that said something about not baking with it....so I'm so happy to see I can! Especially since I bought some yesterday thinking I could ;-)

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Fri, Mar-19-04, 16:28

Karen

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Quote:

Here in the US, it's made from saccharin, which is not.

Saccharin is heat stable Freckl.

You're probably thinking of aspartame. The taste of saccharin isn't quite as pleasant as cyclamate though.

Karen

Last edited by Karen : Sun, Mar-21-04 at 09:04.

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Sat, Mar-20-04, 18:14

PaminNY

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I just made chocolate fudge brownies with splenda and no matter how much splenda I used, the chocolate was bitter. Is there a good AS combo for us in the US?