People think I am bizarre because I do not consume artificial sweeteners.

I suspect aspartame of giving me migraines (I am unwilling to try to “prove” that by having someone feed me regular, sugar-sweetened food and then aspartame-laced food in a blind test).

all of the “sugar alcohols” like sorbitol cause massive cramps and other unpleasant effects.

And splenda also causes cramping in me – just less severely than the sugar alcohols.

I just wish that manufacturers were required to put UP FRONT on their packaging when they have fake sugar in there – I’ve been snookered more than once by splenda-containing substances. And no, “now contains less sugar” isn’t the same thing. I assume that means they’ve reformulated it to contain less sweetener total – not that some of the sugar’s been replaced by something else.

And anything that has sugar alcohols in it will cause laxative effects like you won’t believe. Trust me. I thought sugar-free chocolate was God’s gift to humanity and in reality it was Satan’s gift to plumbing!