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The holy grail of sweetners is left handed sugar. Basically a regular glucose molecule but flipped. Tastes identical to sugar but cannot be metabolized.

The catch is that no one has found a way to synthesize it cheaply.

I don't know. Trans-fat turned out to be super bad. I'm leery of trans-sugar.

Something tells me there is no free lunch here as well.

It seems everything that gratifies the tongue is bad in some way.

Wikipedia says "L-Glucose was also found to be a laxative..."

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