IBS: - Sugar versus Artificial Sweetener
Wikipedia: Sugar Sugar is the generalised name for sweet, short-chain, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food. Sugars are found in the tissues of most plants but are only present in sufficient concentrations for efficient extraction in sugarcane and sugar beet . Sugar substitute A sugar substitute is a food additive that duplicates the effect of sugar in taste , usually with less food energy . Some sugar substitutes are natural and some are synthetic. Those that are not natural are, in general, called Artificial Sweeteners Irritable Bowl Syndrome -IBS Since my IBS and food intolerance's have progressively gotten worse Iv been forced to not only think about what I eat, but look at what's in it and how it was made. It's been a strange and often mind boggling journey into food. I ignore logic and never assume that ingredients I am intolerant too have not been added to the food. I still c...