What do you know about sweeteners

With the improvement of people's living standard, people‘s eating has made a lot of improvement. There are many additives in food, and sweeteners is one of the most common one. A series food such as drink, fast food, snacks and other foods have a variety of food additives. Besides, glucose syrup, sodium cyclamate, acesulfame, white granulated sugar, sucralose are very common.



Artificial sweeteners provide sweet taste, but hardly any energy, so it also known as low energy sweetener, or nonnutritive sweetener, sugar substitute, and so on. Currently, the most popular and most widely used low energy sweeteners include: acesulfame-k, and aspartame, Neotame, saccharin, sucralose, stevia sugar and sweetener. Due to its high intensity sweetener property, just with a little sweetener can get a good sense of sweet. Moreover, the sweeteners do not increase the risk of tooth decay and dental caries.

Is it safe to use sweeteners?

People with stomach function disorder had better not to eat foods contain generation sugar material, this may easy to cause bloating. Allowed to use sweeteners are subject to stringent safety assessment. In order to ensure the safety of food and drink, sweeteners must go through many national scientific institutions stringent safety assessment before use. Current studies suggest that sweeteners as part of the daily diet is safe. On the regulatory, food manufacturers are required to must be indicated on the product label sweetener ingredients. We usually use acceptable daily intake values (ADI) to show safety of sweeteners. ADI is an ingredient that human eat without any harm. In General, level of people's intake of sweeteners is difficult to reach the ADI level. Current investigation showed that all types of people on common sweetener intake is lower than the ADI value. It can be argued that as long as fair use, the allowed to use sweeteners are safe.

Do foods without sugar not cause obesity?

Although food sugars have been replaced by sweeteners, the food calories cannot be ignored. such as carbohydrates in grains of desserts. Besides, for people who need to lose weight or fat, sweetener is a good substitute. Because sweeteners will not loss sweetness, also with a low calorie sweetener in food can reduce energy intake, this help people lose weight or maintain weight. In the past 20 years, a large number of studies have shown that low calorie sweeteners can help people lose weight or weight control. However, successful weight loss also need to maintain a balanced diet, regular exercise. At the same time, in the use of alternative sweeteners additives in food energy, the total energy intake should also controlled. This is the key factor to maintain good weight.