BIOL 1060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Lactose Intolerance, Carbohydrate Metabolism, Splenda
17 Feb 2016
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You"re eating chlorine (not much, but there is) Splenda isn"t metabolized by the body b/c of the presence of chlorine. Has no use, just satisfies craving of sweet taste. Aspartame (a dipeptied [2 amino acids linked] of aspartate and phenylalanine methyl ester) is an artificial sweetener (equa, nutrasweet) about 200x sweeter than table sugra. There"s phenylalanine, so you don"t want it (bladder cancer). Saccharin (benzoic sulfimide) is used 3rd after splenda and aspartame in terms of quantities used for artificial sweetening. 4 hours, all the sugars and most of the starches have been digested: in the large intestine: the small amount of undigested starch that gets to the large intestine is called resistant starch. Usually, this is starch that somehow avoided interaction w/ the enzymes of the small intestine b/c of the physical nature of the food (we could call it hard-to-get-at starch). The resistant starch and indigestible fiber attract water, which softens the stools.
