The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates all artificial sweeteners that are sold or used in prepared foods in the United States. The administration also sets an acceptable daily intake (ADI), which is the amount that can be safely eaten each day over a person's lifetime. The good news is there is no clear evidence that the artificial sweeteners sold and used in the United States are linked to cancer risk in humans.
Artificial sweeteners increase sugar cravings
The bad news is, artificial sweeteners, precisely because they are sweet, encourage sugar craving and sugar dependence. Repeated exposure trains flavor preference, according to the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at Yale University.
Not all artificial sweeteners are alike
There are numerous artificial sweeteners that contain different ingredients.
For instance, Sweet’N Low contains saccharin, which
was reportedly discovered by Constantin Fahlberg, a chemist
working on coal tar derivatives at Johns Hopkins University.Splenda delivers a taste similar to sugar
Accidentally discovered by U.K. scientists while they were developing
new insecticides, Sucralose, the chemical in Splenda, remains the
biggest sugar substitute on the market made by Johnson and Johnson. Sucralose is made using a multi-step process that starts with ordinary
table sugar (sucrose) then replaces three hydrogen-oxygen groups on the
sugar molecule with three chlorine atoms. This results in a stable
sweetener that delivers a taste profile similar to sugar, but is
calorie-free.Stevia may assist with reduced glucose levels
Stevia is extracted from the leaves of the South and Central American
plant Stevia rebaudiana — also known as sugar leaf. It’s marketed as
Stevia extract or distributed as the brand Truvia by U.S. food giant
Cargill, one of the world’s largest privately held companies. Stevia rebaudiana leaves contain non-cariogenic and non-caloric sweeteners (steviol-glycosides) whose consumption could exert beneficial effects on human health is stated in a study by the Department of Science and Technology at the University of Milan.Three U.S. Universities participated in a study of the sweetener Stevia. Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Department of Aging and Geriatric Research, University of Florida, Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University, Stevia preloads reduced postprandial blood glucose and insulin levels, suggesting stevia may assist with glucose regulation.
Stop training your body to like sugar
Repeated sweetness flavoring seems to train our bodies to like it. We need to remove the whole sweetness exposure from our foods in order to stop obesity, tooth decay, diabetes and simply weight gain.
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