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Nick Cramer > wrote:

> "Ozgirl" > wrote:
> > Do you have truth in labelling laws?
> >
> > "KROM" > wrote in message

>
> > > I loved the splenda with fiber instead of malto dextrin or whatever as
> > > it had no aftertaste..but last two boxes or so had a metallic taste
> > > and looks the same as the regular now.
> > >
> > > so I'm calling shenagins on them..
> > >
> > > as I've said before companies make a thing great until they get a fan
> > > base then go cheap because they figure most wont notice..
> > >
> > > sad..

>
> > > "Nick Cramer" wrote in message
> > > "KROM" > wrote:
> > >> every stevia product I see is like one percent stevia and 90 percent
> > >> erythritol or xlitol and the rest fillers so I see no point in it.
> > >>
> > > [ . . . . ]
> > >
> > > One of my daughters gave me a couple of stevia products for Christmas.
> > > I
> > > tasted each, so I could tell, her I did. I didn't care them and gave
> > > them
> > > to one of my other daughters. I really like the taste of Splenda and
> > > it
> > > doesn't raise my BG.

>
> Not sure if you're asking me or KROM, but as far as I know, we do have
> truth-in-labeling laws here in the USA. Of course, they're written by
> politicians or bureaucratic hacks, so caveat emptor, eh?


And a law without any enforcement is useless.

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