Sentences with phrase «usage as a sweetener»

Stevia has only been consumed en masse in the US since 2008 (when the FDA legalised its usage as a sweetener) so we just don't know.

While sugar alcohols may indeed occur in nature, their usage as sweeteners also suffers from the same problem as many other sweeteners, pharmaceutical drugs and other substances today — one single factor from a natural food item is being isolated from its normal co-constituents and consumed at levels that are difficult to obtain when eating the food item itself.