LOVE Jake, but why sucralose?

snousable 2017-04-22 16:44:24 UTC #1

Hi Jake,

First of all; thank you so much for creating this product, I love it & couldn't live without my morning-Jake anymore! But I'm curious, why did you choose Sucralose as a sweetener?

Thanks in advance!

Anouchka

Ps. Oh and I think the normal Jake will be just fine with less sugar! It's a bit too sweet in my opinion.

Christa 2020-03-15 17:45:40 UTC #3

LOL, quite the same here.
I love the "this is a complete meal" (I do not really mind if it is vegan or not) just noticed my inner parts are quite happy with the product.
I usually avoid artificial sugars like the proverbial plague and was somewhat disappointed to find them here (our bodies are finetuned to deal with the natural sugars and usually get derailled by the man-made ones).
Started with the "light"-version (the normal is a bit too much, volume-wise, for me) but the same struck me: it is a wee bit too sweet for my taste.
(And I usually have quite a sweet tooth, so it is really sweet! But if the original recipe is American...well that's cultural: Europe traditionally uses a lot less sugar in their food in general, eps. the basic foodstuffs like bread etc.)

VeraW_TeamJake 2020-03-26 09:18:41 UTC #4

Hi @Christa,

Thanks for reaching out. We've chosen sucralose for multiple reasons.

Sucralose was discovered in 1976 and is made from sugar. The EFSA approved of sucralose in 1991 and the FDA approved of sucralose in 1999 for general purposes. Since then, sucralose has been used in a huge and ever-growing amount of products. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) re-assessed the safety of sucralose especially for use in baby foods. The EFSA exists to ensure the safety of what we eat. In 2016, the EFSA released their scientific opinion following this re-assessment and have deemed sucralose safe, even for use in special medical purposes in young children.

So sucralose is safe, but why did we add it to Jake? Sucralose is about 600 times sweeter than sugar, which means that we only need very small amounts of it to sweeten foods and drinks. That means that we're able to create Jake with the level of sweetness it has, without the additional calories that sugar would add to obtain the same level of sweetness.

We keep on developing the products of Jake and currently, we're looking into Stevia as a replacement for Jake. The first samples we had, were not successful. The aftertaste of Stevia is bitter and not nice at all, so we have to find a way to make this taste better. Eventually, sucralose will be replaced, but as you can imagine, this process takes a while.

Best,
Vera

Christian_K 2020-06-11 08:01:12 UTC #5

I also learned a lot about sugar, cause of my fructose intolerance. There is a lot of sugar facts and if you look into them, you will see that sugar itself is bad in any matter for the body. Sure we need some, but the ammount is almost not even nessesary to mention.
I dont see a problem with the Jakefood ammount, cause you lets say skip some other meals which contain probably much more sugar.
As for the Sugar itself, yeah Stevia is probably the best type of sugar, but with a bad taste to handle. Xylit would be another refined sugar to work with. But like i said, i doesnt really matter which, every sugar has his own issues.