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Paper tastes good for no reason
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You know that dude that bet he could recognize toilet paper brands by taste? He won that bet.
Also the reason paper tastes sweet is xylotol (wood sugar). It has some amazing properties and is edible in small doses.
How small is small? And what happens beyond it?
Enought for most chewing gum. After about two tea spoons I start shitting my brains out. That warning on tic tacs about not earing too much at once? Thats for the xylotol inside.
I thought tic tacs were made of like 99% pure sugar and/or HFCS.
There's a video (below) where they make rice crispies with sawdust as an added ingredient. Like 10-30% sawdust was fine and just affected the texture. It wasn't until 50% sawdust that they tasted bad. https://youtu.be/AKDal51f5LU?si=79LBDaYnRmLa1cSn
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