Article: Sugar too sweet for you? Here are the options.(Food)(Lean & lovin' it)

Byline: Don Mauer

It doesn't matter what weight-loss diet you're on, sugar plays the bad guy.

Sugar supplies calories, 16 per teaspoon; and is nutritionally bankrupt. If your current food plan says "no-no" to sugar, to what can it say "yes-yes?"

Sugar substitutes or artificial sweeteners.

Let's consider the options. First up is the great granddaddy of all artificial sweeteners: saccharin, which is sold commercially as Sweet'n Low. Saccharin's made from a synthesized organic molecule derived from petroleum: methyl anthranilate. Yummy.

Grapes, along with some other fruits, naturally contain methyl anthranilate, which begs the ...

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