From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npois!eiss!pd
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Title: Sucrose Isomer, anyone??
Article-I.D.: eiss.335
Posted: Mon Jun  7 15:44:26 1982
Received: Tue Jun  8 02:46:55 1982

Has anyone heard of efforts by Genentech et al to produce a bacteria/plant
that would produce an isomer of sucrose that looks and tastes like sugar
but is otherwise completely ignored by the body? The properties of this
sugar are apparently quite well known, but it has so far been only produced
in the lab in small quantities. 

The implications of the discovery of a large scale production technique
of this sugar are staggeringly yummy.

Prem Devanbu (.....npois!eiss!pd)