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Article: Artificial sweeteners.
- Article from:
- Nutrition Health Review
- Article date:
- June 22, 1994
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The use of dietetic candy, cookies, and other "diabetic" foods is usually misleading. These foods may not contain sugar but they are very often high in calories because of basic ingredients.
Many diabetics are misled by the implied benefits, and often will eat these products in addition to regular meals. The only sweetening agent that has neither nutritive nor caloric value is saccharin.
Several additives that are used in foods as sugar substitutes should be better understood. Among the best known are:
Fructose: Found naturally in many fresh fruits and vegetables. Its content in honey may be as much as 40%. (To be remembered is the fact that ...