Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Addiction

Along with drugs and alcohol, here are some of the other substances that I am addicted to and therefore abstain from.  Some folks have asked me.

Types, forms  of sugar
Ace-K
Acesulfame-k (Sunette, Sweet and Safe, Sweet One)
Alcohol, alcoholic drinks
Alitame
Amasake
Artificial sweetener packets (Equal, Sweet'n'low, Sweet Thing, Splenda)
Artificial flavors
Aspartame/NutraSweet
Augmiel
Barley malt
Cane juice
Caramel coloring
Concentrated fruit juice
Corn sweetener
Cyclamates
Date paste, syrup
Dextrin
Dried/dehydrated fruit
Evaporated cane juice (e.g., Florida Crystals)
Extracts
Fat substitutes (made from concentrated fruit paste)
Fructooligosaccharides (FOS)
Fruit flavorings (check with company)
Fruit juice concentrate
Glucoamine/glucosamine
Glycerine
Honey (any type)
Jaggery
-ides, any additive with this suffix:
monosodium glycerides, olyglycerides, saccharides (any), trisaccharides,
diglycerides, disaccharides, glycerides (any), monoglycerides, onosaccharides, etc.
Licorice root powder

"Light", "lite" or "low" sugar
Malted barley
Maltodextrins
Malts (any)
Molasses, black strap molasses
"Natural" flavors
"Natural" sweeteners
Nectars
Neotame
-ol, any additive with this suffix:
carbitol, glucitol, glycerol,  glycol, hexitol, inversol, maltitol, mannitol, sorbitol, xylitol, etc.
Olestra (made from sucrose)
-ose, these additives with this suffix:
colorose, dextrose, fructose, galactose, glucose, lactose, levulose, maltodextrose, maltose, mannose, polydextrose, polytose, ribose, sucralose, sucrose, tagatose, zylose.
Raisin juice, paste or syrup
Rice malt, sugar or syrup
Rice sweeteners
Sorghum
Splenda (Sucralose)
Stevia
Sucanat (evaporated cane juice)
Sucraryl
Sugars, any type:
apple sugar, barbados sugar, bark sugar, beet sugar, brown sugar (any grade), cane sugar, caramel sugars, confectioner's sugar, date sugar, grape sugar, invert sugar, milled sugar, "natural" sugar, powdered sugar, raw sugar, turbinado sugar, unrefined sugar, etc.
Sunenette/Sweet-One (Acesulfame-K)
Syrups, any type:
agave syrup, barley syrup, brown rice syrup, corn syrup, date syrup, high fructose corn syrup, maple syrup, raisin syrup, yinnie syrup (rice syrup), etc.
Vanillan
Whey (as an additive)
Xanthum gum



Types, Forms  of Flour
Any bean, vegetable, nut, or grain that is ground into flour, meal, or powder is "flour" 
Starches and guar gum are also considered flour.
I do not consume any kind of flour.


Types & forms of wheat
Bran (if made from wheat)
Bulgar
Durum wheat
Gluten (wheat protein)
Kamut
Red wheat
Red spring wheat

Seitan (made from wheat protein, gluten)
Semolina
Spelt
Triticale (a wheat/rye hybrid)
Wheat berries
Wheat bran
Wheat flakes
Wheat germ
Whole-grain wheat
Winter wheat


Please note: This list is not exhaustive. If you are unsure about an ingredient, it is best to check with the manufacturer or forego the product.

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