What are everyone's views and experiences with sweeteners found in most whey powder?
It didn't bother me before - I'm a shake it up and chug it down kind of guy. However, I switched brands recently and began having some of the worst magraine in years.
After prolonged headaches, I narrowed the new whey as a suspect, and googled for more information.
Turns out many others had similar issues, usually linked to the sweeteners. So, I had a close look at the ingredients for the first time, and found E995 (Sucralose).
Reading up, like most controversial food additive, there's a side that claims it's completely safe and the other that says it's toxin.
What mattered was that once I stopped for several days, my headache was gone. Obviously this experential evidence is all it takes for me to avoid sucralose products from now on.
For comparison, my old whey includes a sweetener as well, Stevia, apparently a more natural version. I don't believe that completely, and there are its critics, but at least it doesn't cause me headaches.
In any case, I'm just curious why supplement companies selling to nutrition-concious customers would include such controversial sweetners in the products?
Can't we just have natural sweeteners? Or unsweetened, which we could then easily sweetened to our own preference? Sweeteners is different from the flavour, from my understanding, it's possible to be flavoured but unsweetened.
P.S. I don't have exact sites as I googled weeks ago. But if you search general terms like 'sucralose whey headache', you'll find plenty of links.
It didn't bother me before - I'm a shake it up and chug it down kind of guy. However, I switched brands recently and began having some of the worst magraine in years.
After prolonged headaches, I narrowed the new whey as a suspect, and googled for more information.
Turns out many others had similar issues, usually linked to the sweeteners. So, I had a close look at the ingredients for the first time, and found E995 (Sucralose).
Reading up, like most controversial food additive, there's a side that claims it's completely safe and the other that says it's toxin.
What mattered was that once I stopped for several days, my headache was gone. Obviously this experential evidence is all it takes for me to avoid sucralose products from now on.
For comparison, my old whey includes a sweetener as well, Stevia, apparently a more natural version. I don't believe that completely, and there are its critics, but at least it doesn't cause me headaches.
In any case, I'm just curious why supplement companies selling to nutrition-concious customers would include such controversial sweetners in the products?
Can't we just have natural sweeteners? Or unsweetened, which we could then easily sweetened to our own preference? Sweeteners is different from the flavour, from my understanding, it's possible to be flavoured but unsweetened.
P.S. I don't have exact sites as I googled weeks ago. But if you search general terms like 'sucralose whey headache', you'll find plenty of links.