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Health Corner

Taste Can Be Deceiving—The Sugar Monster

Food and Drug Administration regulations restrict how food manufacturers can use the term “sugar” in any ingredient label. Whenever the word appears in a list of ingredients, it is limited to only sucrose obtained from sugar cane or sugar beets. This means that there is absolutely no difference between sugar from sugar beets and sugar from sugar cane.

Doctors and Dieticians  often say, “eat in moderation”. The vast majority of foods we consume contain some form of sugar: soft drinks (one 12 ounce can of soda contains 9 heaping teaspoons of sugar), cakes, cookies, canned fruits and juices, as well as ketchup and tomato sauce—all things most Americans consume on a daily basis.

Increasing knowledge of sugar has turned people to sugar substitutes or artificial sweeteners as a dietary supplement  without having to give up their favorite foods.  Artificial sweeteners are non-nutritive sweeteners and they provide no or trace amounts of calories.  They are typically a lot sweeter than sugar and , therefore, we ingest a lot less of them, but we still get that sweetness from them. The National Cancer Institue has deemed that all the artificial sweeteners regulated in the United States are safe and do no pose any cancer risk.

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Source: AZHealth