Safe Sweets

Specific Illnesses & Conditions VM/MAV
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Any ideas on safe sweets to suck throughout the day. I gave up cigarettes 18 months ago and got hooked on polo mints, never got migraine from them, but then, they started to irritate my stomach (eating too many) so now I am looking for another sweet (not a mint).
I tried the various chewing gums (all have colouring or aspartamine) also many of the mints have maltodextrin.

What sweets have you tried that appear safe.

Thanks

Christine

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Strawberry bon bons are quite good! Blackcurrant liquorice, fudge, toffee pennies… I think they are all safe. Ive eaten these and seem to have been ok after.

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Thanks Julia,

I have stuck with the toffees for quite a while, and I don’t have a problem with them either.

The strawberry bon bons sound good, might give them a go.

I don’t want to put on weight so perhaps I should stick to sucking ice cubes :shock:

Christine :slight_smile:

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Hi Christine when I fancy a sweet treat I have marshmallows. They seem fine and have no dairy in which is my main trigger. I don’t seem to be able to cope with toffees or fudge :frowning: but im okay with fruit pastilles, chewy sweets without dairy etc. I’m going to try some dairy free white chocolate over Christmas. God I miss chocolate!!! Xxx

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Charychar, I like using cocoa butter for massage, but if I want chocolate that doesn’t mean I want to eat the flavourless fat mixed with sugar, vanilla, and milk solids. I find white choc a major disappointment.

I also value my teeth, and am not getting enough major exercise lately, so I try to minimize sugar.

We–I and my sweetie–do very nicely on gum sweetened with Xylitol, a sweet alcohol that seems to actually fight caries. The brand I like best is Spry, made by Xlear Inc out of Utah. I’ve moved up to where every so many months, I buy a 600-count jar of cinnamon, and maybe one of peppermint or spearmint. (A whole lot cheaper than buying of few of the gumdrops at a time, plus you can’t find them everywhere.)

I’ve also baked with xylitol, but I’m a little leery of doing so, as xylitol can cause some people diarrhea when ingested in sufficient etc.