WARNING: Aldi Sugar-Free Fruit Sweets
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Just thought i'd do my bit for public service and share a warning with you all.
We drove from Edinburgh down to Cornwall earlier this year on holiday.
We decided to buy some snacks for the journey, and whilst perusing the wonderful world of our local Aldi, I happened upon various wee packets of fruit flavoured, hard boiled sweets - perfect for sooking on the way down the motorway.
What I failed to read on the side of the packet was a warning "May cause laxative effects".
Well, I can safely say that is the understatement of the century.
I munched on a packet of these as we headed down south, there are around 16 sweets in a packet, and by the time we decided to stop at a motorway services, I must had eaten around 10 of the wee buggers.
The first I knew all was not well was walking to the coffee shop with Mrs Chimp and Chimp Jr.
I'll be back in a minute I said as I headed towards the gents toilets - not the nicest of experience in a motorway services at the best of times but this was on another level.
As soon as I relieved the pressure, it was like someone had replaced my arse with a hosepipe - man, I never knew the human body could hold that much water! I began to panic that I would not be able to continue with the rest of our journey, or that I may run out of toilet paper and be stuck there forever more.
Eventually things subsided and I was able to regain some composure and return to my family who were a little bit concerned about how long I had been away for.
I told them what had happened, and they did find it a bit funny so it was all good.
We resumed the rest of our journey towards Cornwall...and I had another packed of the sweets in my door pocket.
Now being a)a software tester, and b)a wee bit of a sweetie addict, you can guess what happened next. Surely that must have been a coincidence? There's no way only 10 of those sweets had that kind of impact, surely?
So I had another 10 or so.
We arrived at our holiday cottage rental and the first place I had to visit was our ensuite bathroom - luckily I was able t hold off untili the wee lady who was showing us the place left.
Man alive, same again, although this time I swear it was worse! So glad the booking came with spare toilet roll supplies.
On checking, I found that these sweets contain acesulfame-k which by all accounts is not a very nice artificial sweetener at all.
So, if you find yourself in Aldi and fancy some hard boiled sweets, please do yourself a favour and step away from the sugar free ones - you might just live to regret it (or wish you hadn't).
Then again, if you need to lose some weight quickly, bash on buddy, what's the worst that could happen?
We drove from Edinburgh down to Cornwall earlier this year on holiday.
We decided to buy some snacks for the journey, and whilst perusing the wonderful world of our local Aldi, I happened upon various wee packets of fruit flavoured, hard boiled sweets - perfect for sooking on the way down the motorway.
What I failed to read on the side of the packet was a warning "May cause laxative effects".
Well, I can safely say that is the understatement of the century.
I munched on a packet of these as we headed down south, there are around 16 sweets in a packet, and by the time we decided to stop at a motorway services, I must had eaten around 10 of the wee buggers.
The first I knew all was not well was walking to the coffee shop with Mrs Chimp and Chimp Jr.
I'll be back in a minute I said as I headed towards the gents toilets - not the nicest of experience in a motorway services at the best of times but this was on another level.
As soon as I relieved the pressure, it was like someone had replaced my arse with a hosepipe - man, I never knew the human body could hold that much water! I began to panic that I would not be able to continue with the rest of our journey, or that I may run out of toilet paper and be stuck there forever more.
Eventually things subsided and I was able to regain some composure and return to my family who were a little bit concerned about how long I had been away for.
I told them what had happened, and they did find it a bit funny so it was all good.
We resumed the rest of our journey towards Cornwall...and I had another packed of the sweets in my door pocket.
Now being a)a software tester, and b)a wee bit of a sweetie addict, you can guess what happened next. Surely that must have been a coincidence? There's no way only 10 of those sweets had that kind of impact, surely?
So I had another 10 or so.
We arrived at our holiday cottage rental and the first place I had to visit was our ensuite bathroom - luckily I was able t hold off untili the wee lady who was showing us the place left.
Man alive, same again, although this time I swear it was worse! So glad the booking came with spare toilet roll supplies.
On checking, I found that these sweets contain acesulfame-k which by all accounts is not a very nice artificial sweetener at all.
So, if you find yourself in Aldi and fancy some hard boiled sweets, please do yourself a favour and step away from the sugar free ones - you might just live to regret it (or wish you hadn't).
Then again, if you need to lose some weight quickly, bash on buddy, what's the worst that could happen?
I understand sugar free gummy bears from another manufacturer have the same effect? Interesting reading the comments on amazon for these.
http://www.amazon.com/Haribo-Sugar-Free-Gummy-Bear...
I never bother with sugar free or looks like butter etc.
http://www.amazon.com/Haribo-Sugar-Free-Gummy-Bear...
I never bother with sugar free or looks like butter etc.
but isn't 20 sweets on a journey going it a bit?jmorgan said:
I understand sugar free gummy bears from another manufacturer have the same effect? Interesting reading the comments on amazon for these.
http://www.amazon.com/Haribo-Sugar-Free-Gummy-Bear...
I never bother with sugar free or looks like butter etc.
I particularly liked the advertising banner directly above the review:http://www.amazon.com/Haribo-Sugar-Free-Gummy-Bear...
I never bother with sugar free or looks like butter etc.
"Discover beautiful things on Amazon, updated daily".
t storm. Literally in this case it seems.Sharted said:
I knew exactly what this would be about from reading the title.
I've had the same effect from sugar free sweets from M&S and the sweetie stall in the market.
Reminded me of Picolax.
Apt user name then I've had the same effect from sugar free sweets from M&S and the sweetie stall in the market.
Reminded me of Picolax.
Had some sugar free mints ages ago, was on the bus back to work and they started "working"
Had to walk to the office from the bus stop with very clenched buttocks! Never again.Sharted said:
Reminded me of Picolax.
Yep. My experience of being given Picolax a couple of years ago for a procedure was enough to ensure that I would never consume sweets / foods that contained high percentages of certain artificial sweeteners again, as I didn't want to experience that day of preparation hell once more Saying that though, maybe the NHS could be onto a winner with a cheaper alternative to Picolax based on the OP's post
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