Question About Sweetners
#357754 - 04/12/10 09:41 PM
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I am looking at buying a protein powder online.
They offer several options in terms of flavoring.
I wasn't sure which are IBS safe, so I posted below.
Any advice you have would be welcomed.
Thanks.
1) Stevia-says this is all natural so is it ok?
2) Ingredients for unsweetened:
-Natural and Artificial flavoring, Modified Food Starch, Silicon Dioxide, Maltodextrin.
3) Ingredients for Natural:
-Natural coloring and flavoring, Stevia natural herbal sweetener, Maltodextrin.
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Pure Stevia should be fine. Best to stay away from supplements with artificial flavors and colorings.
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So you think my past issues with Egg Powder could be due to the natural and artifical flavorings?
So in this case, I should not choose any flavor, just plain BUT go with the stevia sweetner and be fine?
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Plain w/stevia, syl do you think that would work better?
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I have also looked at protein powders and even talked to my naturopathic doctor about them and she recommended rice protein powder. Many of them are pure rice with NO extra ingredients. I haven't started taking one just yet but there were quite a few available in my local health food stores. Why not look into one of these and not worry about any extra ingredients? 
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So she recommended one that had no ingredient beside the protein powder?
I guess in that case she feels the culprits are the extra ingredients?
I think I will go with the egg protein powder PLAIN unflavored with Stevia.
Usually the rice powder is brown rice...which we can't tolerate.
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even if it's brown rice the insoluble fiber in there is so finely pulverized that with the soluble fiber it's likely tolerable for a lot of IBS folks.
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