Em M wrote:
Hi everyone
I've been using this tea for some time now and just wonder if it is ok as it is sweet - especially sweet now that I have given up fructose.
I can't see anywhere on the label that it says anything but herbs. It has no energy counter.
Do you think it is ok to drink?
Em
Hi Em,
I don't know much about this myself but I was looking up licorice root because I want to see if I can make fructose free licorice and see that licorice root itself is sweet. Wikipedia says that the sweetness in licorice root comes from something called glycyrrhizin- the wiki for this doesn't mention fructose. I found something else that says that glycyrrhizin has pretty much no calories, so I'm presuming that it doesn't have fructose which does have calories. So, looks like it might be ok if the licorice root is what is making your tea seem sweet?
Cheers
Jemma
