"Artificial sweeteners" refers to substances that are used as sugar substitutes in food and beverages. They are made in a laboratory and provide a sweet taste without the added calories of regular sugar.
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It is naturally very sweet and considered 100 to 200 times sweeter than sugar, but it doesn't raise blood sugar levels like sugar and
other artificial sweeteners do.
Even energy drinks that contain high amounts of sugar will also
include artificial sweeteners to help cover the medicinal taste of the other energy drink ingredients.
I used honey for the sweetener as I don't
eat artificial sweeteners, just scaled back the quantities to avoid making it all too wet!
I really dislike the taste of rice milk in hot drinks, it gives a strange,
artificial sweetener taste to the drink, and I'd rather have no milk than that!
You try to avoid
artificial sweeteners when you can but you're much more concerned about your sugar intake because a family member suffers from diabetes.
On that latter possibility, however, it's important to note that the study didn't specifically
link artificial sweeteners with worse health effects.
It is categorized as a sugar alcohol, and most commonly used as a low -
calorie artificial sweetener in gum, candy, toothpaste, and other sweets.
In other words, a chocolate cupcake is still a chocolate cupcake to your brain, even if it is wheat - free and contains
only artificial sweeteners.
The study was even able to document at the physiological level that animals
given artificial sweeteners responded differently to their food than those eating high - calorie sweetened foods.
«Since we do not yet really understand if these are real causal effects, women should refrain from consuming
artificial sweeteners during pregnancy,» he added.
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