Re: Re: Pork Roast and Diet Coke

[Guest guest]

At 03:25 PM 3/6/2010, you wrote:

Diet Coke is legal, in spite of

having natural flavors?

OR

Diet Coke is illegal because it has natural flavors?

Elaine said we might have one diet soda per week. I do not recall that

she specified brands.

Given that caramel coloring is often derived from sugar, and that natural

flavors render anything else illegal, my personal feeling would be to

find (or make) a ginger ale or lemon-lime soda which did not have those

ingredients.

However, people often tell me that I am unreasonably suspicious. I'm

about to head for bed, and I will acknowledge that I haven't bothered to

look up the ingredients in the major diet sodas because I've been working

on my writing. I'll be surprised, though, if the lot of them don't have

" natural flavors. "

The only thing I can conclude is that Elaine felt it was unreasonable to

ask people to not only give up all grains and all starches and all

sodas... and felt the tiny bit of " natural flavoring " in one

soda once a week was the lesser of evils, and having one soda once a week

might mean the difference between sticking with the diet, and going nuts

and eating a whole giant serving of, say, MacMordor's fries.

OTOH, if my food diary says I don't tolerate it, then no matter how legal

it is, I'll set it aside. I can't do Aspartame, so diet sodas are right

out where I'm concerned -- and I knew that a good ten years before I

found SCD.

I do make a " cream soda " with a tablespoon or so of legal

vanilla extract in a glass of legal soda water. (Don't try to add honey,

unless you really LIKE having your glass explode in your face. Yes,

that's a soaked towel you see over there.)

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Marilyn

New

Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

Darn Good SCD Cook

No Human Children

Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund

[Guest guest]

That recipe for cream soda sounds really good. I'll have to try it.I like diet coke, but it kicks up my GERD and general gastritis something awful. It's also bad for your bones if you have more than 1 a week. Once in a while I have one, and then wonder why I did. Diet 7-up is not quite so acidic to me.

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