hermesetas sweetener

mumandnana · #1 26-03-2010, 10:53

Hi everyone,
What is hermetes sugar ? How is it made ? I googled it and came up with nothing. Thank you.

mcpsych · #2 26-03-2010, 12:15

perhaps you mean hermesetas , a sweetener

mumandnana · #3 27-03-2010, 06:09

Thanks mcpsych ! It will help if I google the correct word

I have never heard of this sugar before and was trying to find out about it.

lets.get.started · #4 27-03-2010, 08:21

Just went on website and here is what they have to say.

Hermesetas is an artificial sweetner that taste like sugar but have either no calories or practically no calories.
In spite of their sweetening strength, the various types of Hermesetas have either an extremely low nutritive value (calorie count) or no calories at all.
The sweeteners Saccharin and Acesulfame-K are organic compounds that taste sweet but contain no calories at all. Saccharin is about 450 times sweeter than the comparable amount of sugar and Acesulfame-K around 200 times sweeter. These sweeteners are excreted from the body unused and unchanged.
This means that Hermesetas Tablets are completly calorie-free.

Courtesy of:
http://www.hermesetas.com/data/en/questions/calorie.php

honeybuns · #5 27-03-2010, 09:35

And I will attest to that....its the only sweetener I will use, both in tablet and powder form. No after-taste, tastes just like sugar!

mumandnana · #6 27-03-2010, 09:52

Thank you lets. get. started. and honeybuns. I will see where in New Zealand it can be purchased. I love your pink elephant and rabbit

mcpsych · #7 27-03-2010, 09:52

use it in good health

Kohinoor · #8 27-03-2010, 15:18

Hi Mum,

Just be sure you DON'T buy "Hermesetas GOLD" (I think the packaging is sorta similar between the gold and the standard - so be careful).

Asy has some words re this :-
http://newyouforum.com/forum/showthread.php?p=224740#post224740

Do read the post before Asy's too, just to get some context,

Koh

mumandnana · #9 27-03-2010, 16:06

Yikes ! Thanks Koh, you probably just saved me making a big mistake.Thank you.

lets.get.started · #10 27-03-2010, 16:09

This is the info that they have about NZ on the net...

New Zealand

Local distributor

Wainhouse Distribution Ltd.
2-6 Argyle Street,
Morningside
Auckland
Phone: 09 815 10 20
Fax: 09 815 10 36

mumandnana · #11 27-03-2010, 18:44

Thank you very much lets.get.started. You have kindly got it all sorted for me.I will ring them on Monday and make sure I get the right one.Any idea what I should expect to pay? Have a great day.

jlou · #12 27-03-2010, 19:27

And be careful - those little tablets are really sweet! I have to break mine in half because one tiny tab is about 2 teaspoons of sugar worth I reckon!

mumandnana · #13 28-03-2010, 04:44

Wow ! Thanks jlou, They must be amazing wee tablets.

honeybuns · #14 28-03-2010, 10:44

Actually jlou...I don't find that at all, I reckon all the other sweetners are overly sweet but 1 x Hermesetes tastes exactly the same as 1 x sugar to me. And it says on the pack 1 for 1.....hmmmmm. I guess it will just be trial & error for you mumandnana

HB xx

mcpsych · #15 28-03-2010, 13:50

It's just that jlo is already sweet enough

mumandnana · #16 28-03-2010, 14:03

Hi Honeybuns, thank you for your advice, I am looking forward to getting some as I cannot handle any of the others.I have not been drinking any of the allowed fizzy drinks for this reason.Also I am a bit scared of them as I have read some very bad reports about some of them on different sites on the web.
Yes mcpsych I am sure jlou is sweet enough already

I guess I will be needing the whole pack to make any difference

jlou · #17 29-03-2010, 07:25

Quote:

It's just that jlo is already sweet enough

yep, sweet as saccharin!!

I have to halve any sweetner I use as they all seem like 2 tsps to me. Mind you, when I am in Australia and can get a decent coffee, I make a double one in a mug so I can use a whole tablet!!

mcpsych · #18 29-03-2010, 17:25

is that " barrista give me a double shot so i can use a WHOLE sweetener"

lets.get.started · #19 10-04-2010, 10:53

mumandnana...
Did you end up finding a distributor for this in New Zealand... it may be helpful for others over there to know if you did???

mumandnana · #20 10-04-2010, 11:48

Hi lets.get.started, I googled the sweetner and read about it and it has saccharin in it which is one of the sweetners that I have read about and thought it best to stay away from but on Monday I will ring the number you gave me and check it out because like you say it could be helpful for others.Thanks for telling me. Does anyone have ideas about these dangers they talk of concerning the artificial sweetners? Happy journeys everyone.