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I want to have jellies/jams.  For various uses.  Adding to smoothies, using with keto breads and mug cakes, or even keto pancakes or waffles.  So, I have been looking.  A common ingredient in sugar free jams and marmalade is maltodextrin.  I don't know why they use it, I just know it is bad for diabetics.  It might as well be sugar.  Actually, it might be worse.

It honestly looks like they try to sneak things in that hurt diabetics.  Why go sugar free, if not to induce a diabetic to try your goods?  Who else would it really be for?  Then again, for those trying to avoid becoming diabetic, it might look like a smart choice as well.  And, well, it wouldn't be.  It might be worse than the plain sugar.  Though, do they even use that anymore, or do they use corn syrup?  I assume corn syrup is so prevalent because the government buys so much corn, it has to use it somehow.  And there are only so many tanks to put it in, and only 10% ethanol?

The webs we weave...  Though some of it might have to do with keeping patents, so needing to use chemicals that the average joe can't obtain?  Well, and process that use those that competitors wouldn't wish to afford.  Even so, back again to weaving webs.

If I could get life back on track, I would begin exploring making homemade jellies/jams.  I have ordered liquid stevia, and will be trying that.  I have tried every other form of it I could find... there are several, three dry sorts if I recall correctly, now the liquid.   It... to me... so far... isn't sweet.  It tastes like soap.  It's like cilantro... actually, that tastes like soap, to me, too!  Genetics?  I have been trying to like cilantro my whole life.  It's not from lack of trying.

Anyway... I will try to find a sweetener I can use, or a mix.  The thing is, it can't be used often, probably not even daily, or it loses it's ability to both sweeten and remain diabetic friendly.  The stuff I was using, replaced stuff I used before.  Sucralose, powder, then liquid.  Not sure what before that, perhaps a very unhealthy(er) sugar free sweetener?

Just a grump.  Pulling sugar only to put something worse in?  Something that spikes blood sugar?  Selling it to diabetics or people trying to escape sugar and the ills from it?  It's a cruel joke, and probably evil.  They have to know.  It isn't even about money.  My guess is they probably have recipes which would be good for people.  It isn't even that people won't pay extra.  They just don't want us healthy.

Later.