According to the Herb Research Foundation, numerous scientists, and tens of millions of consumers throughout the world, especially in Japan, the herb is safe and intensely sweet, which could make it a popular
noncaloric sweetener.
The research showing that sugar is more addictive than cocaine was done with saccharin (
a noncaloric sweetener), not sugar.
Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, started by feeding mice with water that contained either sugar or one of three
noncaloric sweeteners: aspartame, sucralose, or saccharin.
(Note that those figures don't include
noncaloric sweeteners, such as aspartame, sucralose and stevia.)
Not exact matches
«The authors are confounding their conclusions by addressing all these
noncaloric artificial
sweeteners together,» says Brian Ratcliffe, a nutrition researcher at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, U.K.. That's why the title of the paper, «Artificial
sweeteners induce glucose intolerance by altering the gut microbiota,» is misleading, he says.
Sugar alcohols aren't considered
noncaloric or non-nutritive
sweeteners because they contain calories.