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)