Artificial Sweeteners List

Artificial Sweeteners List

There are many artificial sweeteners for people with diabetes to choose.  As far as people with diabetes are concerned, the purpose of artificial sweeteners is to safely replace sugar (sucrose). Replacing sugar with chemicals that do not raise diabetics’ blood sugar safely is all that matters.

If an engineering process was used to change elements of a sweetener at the molecular level, then you can call the result artificial. A manufacturing process starts with sugar and runs it through a series of engineering processes and creates sucralose (Splenda). That is an artificial sweetener that tastes and acts like sugar without effecting a person’s blood sugar.

The Different Types of Natural and Artificial Sweeteners
Diabetics use several types of sweeteners as sugar alternatives. These sweeteners are sometimes natural, such as Stevia and fruit juice. Other sweeteners are man-made, such as Aspartame (as-per-teym) and Splenda. Different sweeteners are often used in different ways. For example, Aspartame is frequently used in diet beverages whereas Splenda is most often used in prepared foods and by the teaspoon. Read more… 

Artificial Sweetener: Debunking The Myths
There were controversies encircling Artificial Sweetener over the last 30-years, it is generally utilized by dieters to reduce calories, diabetic to reduce carbohydrates and food producers to meet the needs of their consumers…  Read more…

High Fructose Corn Syrup
Utilization of High Fructose Corn Syrup has sharply risen in the USA since 1970s. It has become the primary sweetener found in carbonated drinks, plus it’s widely used in manufactured food because of its sweetness, consistency and additive qualities….  Read more…