Marion Hill wrote:Hi everyone,

I'm a new member and have just read the Quit book.

In going through the pantry and supermarket trying to re-engineer our family eating habits, I came upon a jar of PureHarvest Rice Malt Syrup.  The only ingredient is "rice".  Under nutritional information total carbohydrates are 80 g per 100 g and sugars are 47 g per 100 g.

The explanation on the side panel says: "Rice Malt Syrup is an extremely versatile and relatively healthy sweetener which is made by culturing rice with enzymes to breakdown the starches and then cooking until it becomes a syrup.  The final product contains soluble complex carbohydrates, maltose and a small amount of glucose."

This would be a very handy alternative to honey and my husband loves it on his porridge.  Maltose and glucose are both on David's list of allowable sugars.

David, or anyone out there, is this stuff OK? 

Hi Marion welcome to the forum, I've been on the no sugar for 12 days, and I'm under the impression that it's best we don't eat anything over 3g in 100 g of sugar the info on the label, David has written in his book on page 72.

Good luck

Lyn

Janet Heunis wrote:

Hi there - sorry Lyn I have to beg to differ with your advice.  David says (after withdrawal) you can cook with and/or eat dextrose and glucose syrup.  These both have a high g per 100g quantity of sugar because they are sugars...  It is just that they don't contain fructose - which is what we are trying to avoid.

If the rice syrup has effectively no fructose then it should be ok...  But to know that I would need advice from David or someone else...  Corn syrup is NOT ok, so I would not be convinced that rice syrup is ok to eat...

I don't think I've helped at all! LOL