Artificial Sweetners
Title: Artificial Sweetners
Category: /Science & Technology/Chemistry
Details: Words: 2341 | Pages: 9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Artificial Sweetners
Category: /Science & Technology/Chemistry
Details: Words: 2341 | Pages: 9 (approximately 235 words/page)
SWEETENERS
STEVIA
For hundreds of years, people in Paraguay and Brazil have used a sweet
leaf to sweeten bitter herbal teas including mate. For nearly 20
years, Japanese consumers by the millions have used extracts of the
same plant as a safe, natural, non-caloric sweetener. The plant is
stevia, formally known as Stevia rebaudiana, and today it is under
wholesale attack by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Stevia is a fairly unassuming perennial shrub
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but is broken down by an enzyme in the bowel. Fructose sugar looks identical to common white sugar, but is significantly sweeter. It is a safer sugar to use for diabetics, hyperglycemic and hypoglycemic.
Fructose is certainly more desirable than common sugar, but is still void of nutrients.
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