substitutes commonly used. Artificial sweeteners are typically synthetic meaning they are made in a laboratory and non-nutritive‚ which means they don’t contain calories and don’t supply your body with energy‚ vitamins‚ or anything beneficial to your body. A teaspoon of sugar contains about 16 calories‚ so people trying to maintain or lose weight often turn to artificial sweeteners to satisfy their sweet tooth. Sugar alcohols‚ such as sorbitol‚ maltitol and xylitol‚ and natural sweeteners‚ such as honey‚ on
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ABSTRACT Artificial Sweeteners are chemically engineered substances that are sweeter than carbohydrate sweeteners such as sucrose. Their sweetness can vary anywhere from 30 times sweeter to thousands of times sweeter than sucrose. They are used as a sugar substitute more commonly in food and beverages because of their low caloric features they bring to food. They can also be found in pharmaceutical medication and that is why the Food and Drug Administration needs to test and approve anything to
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experts claim that eating artificial sugars to satisfy our sugar addiction is part of a healthy diet. Replacing sugars in beverages‚ honey‚ etc.‚ can dramatically reduce the amount of calories that are consumed. Although this appears to be healthy for the consumer‚ health risks are involved with the artificial sweetener. Since two-thirds of Americans are obese‚ artificial sweeteners could be extremely beneficial. Artificial sweeteners do have their benefits. These sweeteners would be an ideal choice
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Artificial sugars good or bad? The use of artificial sweeteners has both positive and negative effects on your body‚ some learn the hard way while others catch on before its to late. My mom got lucky that her thyroid doctor had warned her about the artificial sweeteners messing with her thyroids. After finding this out she spread the word like wild fire. My family and I did countless hours of research on other effects of artificial sweeteners‚ we found it “(causes) cancer of the bladder‚ uterus
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A sugar substitute is a natural or artificial product made to produce the sweet flavor on food or other products that otherwise would be bitter. Synthetic artificial sugar substitutes are called artificial sweeteners. Inside the family of the sweeteners there are high-calorie ones like sugar or honey‚ but the low calorie ones are the artificial sweeteners mostly associated with diet products. These artificial sweeteners are what people consume today as a substitute to regular sugar (sucrose). According
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Topic: Artificial Sweeteners Artificial sweeteners are chemicals or natural compounds that replace the sweetness of sugar‚ without all of the calories. But sometimes the label ’sugar-free’ masks calories present in the food or drink. Aspartame‚ which is in Equal is a common chemical sweetener with crazy possible side effects. Effects include hallucinations to seizures and brain tumors; it is hardly worth consuming for the sake of saved calories in my opinion. Then you also have Sucralose‚ which
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using “artificial sweeteners” to satisfy our “sweet” taste buds and at the same time reducing our caloric intake. But‚ how beneficial are these‚ if they are doing more harm than good to our health? Could these be hazardous to one’s health? If known to be harmful to the precious human body‚ would the choice still be to consume? Artificial sweeteners have been highly debated and scrutinized for decades. Realistically‚ who doesn’t like the taste of sugar? The majority of people use artificial sweeteners
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economy‚ there has been an inconclusive debate about whether artificial sweeteners could be used in food and beverages as a sweetener material. The use of these sweeteners has some positive effects on the economy by increasing the production and creating new jobs. Additionally‚ they could reduce the obesity‚ diabetes‚ and tooth decay‚ which could decrease the health care cost. On the other hand‚ the consumption of artificial sweeteners may lead to negative implications for the economy‚ for instance
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Artificial sweetners. Artificial sweetners have been in use for over one hundred years. A low calorie substitute for sugar it is used in many ways. Like it or not artificial sweetners are used in may low calorie products. Its no surprise that in todays weight conscious world people in an effort to lose weight will switch to these sweetners without a thought as to how these products have been made.. The soft drink industry has capitalized on dieting with their lines of soft drinks eg
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controversies‚ debates and choices that effect our moral values and desires. Most people are weight conscious and others are health conscious‚ although similar‚ they must be distinguished as their views regarding the hot debate of use of artificial sweeteners vs. Regular sugar differs drastically. As you enter aisle 5 in the super market‚ you may notice that there is regular coke and diet coke. When reading the nutrition labels‚ diet coke contains 0 grams of sugar and 0 calories. The idea
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