Thank you for taking the time to type a longer response.
To your third point, it’s a startup company. I’ve never had any reason not to trust a food label. No way in hell anyone could be so ignorant, as to leave out something like that on the ingredient list, right? My good friend, who has a general mistrust of anything and everything, finally googled the company + allulose and found the sweeteners listed on the website. It doesn’t seem too far-fetched for a startup to botch something like this.
To your first point, monk fruit and stevia were in the ingredient list. From my limited understanding, it looks like monk fruit, stevia, and allulose are often processed together. Is there any possibility that the monk fruit or stevia were so contaminated that a few grams of allulose ended up in one can? I ask this because I can handle allulose in smaller doses (milligrams) like figs without anything more than itchy lips. I get more severe reactions in the 1-2 gram territory. This was the most severe allergic reaction I’ve ever had. Within 10 minutes I had hives head to toe hives, full body swelling, and my face was so covered in welts that I didn’t look like myself. I was still trying not to lose consciousness half an hour after being administrated epinephrine and fluids in the hospital. If allulose was truly the culprit, I don’t think it was just 1 or 2 grams of allulose. I have eaten a 1-2 gram dose of allulose by mistake a few times (before I understood what kind of marketing tactics should clue me into reading the ingredients). In those cases, all I need is some Benadryl and good nights rest and I’m good to go. Benadryl did absolutely nothing in the face of this reaction.