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Can I use an artificial sweetener? |
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An artificial sweetener is a low calorie substance used as sweetener to replace sugars. Carbohydrates, including sugars, are our body's main source of energy. We eat sugars occurring in fruits (fructose) and dairy products (lactose) and added sugars (sucrose). We may want to replace sugars by an artificial sweetener such as aspartame when we want to loose weight. Also, diabetics need to limit their consumption of sugars; they can replace them by an artificial sweetener. |
Aspartame is widely used as a low calorie sweetener in many diet soft drinks, food preparations and as table sweetener. More... Food safety organizations
have checked the safety of this artificial sweetener and of many
others. However, some allegations of side
effects still fuel debates. More
on the aspartame sweetener debate... |
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| read the GreenFacts Digest on the Aspartame artificial sweetener | ||
