I thought I had finally found a healthy drink I liked with no artificial sweetness and they had to go and fuck it up

    • Ebby
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      3828 days ago

      Generally, artificial sweeteners are chemically synthesized while natural sweeteners are grown and refined.

      I used to grow the stevia plant in my garden.

        • Ebby
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          4028 days ago

          Hey, you asked… I just answered.

        • @[email protected]
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          628 days ago

          Salt is also a poison

          but “table salt” contains iodine, and that requires a refining brine which is an industrial process. Its natural but also not. When it comes down to it, lots of this is splitting hairs

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            20 days ago

            its like some vegans cant decide if a FIG is natural or not, since wild figs, or normal ones are fertilized by fig wasps and thier parasitoids. the fig wasps die in the fig after laying its eggs and fertilizing.

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          I would say synthesis in this example is the creation of a molecular compound from differing source materials while refinement is the isolation and concentration of an existing compound.