Like other artificial sweeteners, advantame can be used to sweeten drinks, chewing gum, and other foods that are usually high in sugar. Aspartame (brand name Nutrasweet – also present in Equal) is one ...

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The WHO recommends five to ten percent daily sugar intake, but global consumption reached 177.33 million metric tonnes in ...

Artificial sweeteners can have a not-so-sweet side ... scientists realized that the combination of the two (sold in Europe under brand names such as Assugrin), wasn’t nearly as bitter ...

Part of the solution includes reformulating foods with sugar replacements. Artificial sweeteners give a sweet taste with few or no calories. But are they healthier? There are lots of different ...

But do artificial sweeteners actually help, or could they be doing us harm? We teamed up with Dr James Brown at Aston University to find out. Sweeteners such as saccharin, sucralose, aspartame and ...

Artificial sweeteners, as their name implies, have nothing to do with whole, real food. Those things that contain artificial sweeteners are simply food-like edible substances –not food. Perhaps what ...

That change depends on experience. Problems with self-regulation might explain in part why obesity has risen in parallel with the use of artificial sweeteners. It also might explain why, says Swithers ...