Warning: Eat Sugar-Free Gummi Bears Near a Toilet
Didn't we learn our lesson from "fat-free" potato chips? Guess not. Now Haribo sugar-free Gummi bears have eaters racing to the toilet. Me, personally, I've always hated those things, like chewing on rubber bands. But a lot of America is not like me. According to Medical Daily, " Consumers on Amazon's reviews for the product wrote about the little kick to their bowels they received. " Sabrina Bachai writesof a consumer, who, somewhat too evocatively, said, "I t felt like I was firing out hot liquid magma.” It's the sorbitol and other laxative-like ingredients that usually replace the sugar. In fact, poeople hoping for a quick weight loss have been rushing to buy them (and then, apparently, to the loo!). Some say that, "T hough they did have those nasty side-effects it was a quick way to lose weight, and it was a perfect cleanse prior to undergoing a colonoscopy," Bachai relates. She notes that Haribo does not claim re...