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Definition: artificial sweetener from The Macquarie Dictionary
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a synthetic sugar used as an ingredient in low-calorie food and drinks, or as an additive to tea, coffee, etc., for people who are dieting or diabetic.


Artificial Sweeteners

From The SAGE Encyclopedia of Food Issues
Artificial sweetener is the term used to describe a number of chemical products that are used to sweeten foods and beverages in place of caloric sweeteners such as corn syrup or sucrose. In the United States, there have been four common artificial sweeteners of which three are currently on the market: (1) saccharin, (2) cyclamates, (3) aspartame, and (4) sucralose. The last two are more commonly known by their brand names NutraSweet and Splenda. Statistics from 2007 revealed that 45% of American households regularly purchase artificially sweetened products. These numbers have grown since artificial sweetener became an ingredient in manufactured food and beverage products, often sold as a “diet” or “low-calorie” option, first in the 1950s. Between 1991 and 2007 alone, the total number of Americans using artificially sweetened foods went up from 101 to 194 million ( ICIS Chemical Business, 2009 ). This entry provides an overview of the development and the uses of the most popular…
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For decades sugar, particularly refined white sugar, has had a bad name. A host of problems have been attributed to it over the years, including tooth decay, hyperactivity, mood disorders, premenstrual syndrome, yeast infections, and even some forms of cancer. Many of these attributions are…
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From The Gale Encyclopedia of Nutrition and Food Labels
Artificial sweeteners, also called sugar substitutes, are synthetic substances used to replace sugar in foods and beverages. Many are also known as nonnutritive sweeteners because they add no energy value to food, or as high-intensity sweeteners because only very small quantities are sufficient to…
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From The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets
are industrially produced substitutes for sugar, intended for those who want or need to curtail their intake of sucrose. One could argue that the taste of sweet “discovered” artificial sweeteners. Saccharin, the first artificial sweetener, was identified in the 1870s when a scientist at Johns…
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From The Gale Encyclopedia of Diets
Artificial sweeteners, which are also called sugar substitutes, alternative sweeteners, or non-sugar sweeteners, are substances used to replace sugar in foods and beverages. They can be divided into two large groups: nutritive sweeteners, which add some energy value ( calories ) to food; and…
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From Library of Health and Living: The Encyclopedia of Nutrition and Good Health
A wide range of non-carbohydrate sweeteners (also referred to as non-caloric sweeteners, intense sweeteners, or very low calorie sweeteners) are used in processed foods and beverages to satisfy consumers’ desire for sweets without the surplus calories of sugary, fat-laden foods. These additives…
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Full text Article ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS GLOSSARY

From The Deluxe Food Lover's Companion
Acesulfame-K [ay-see-SUHL-faym-K] Formulated by the Germans in the late 1960s, this noncaloric ARTIFICIAL SWEETENER (also called Ace-K and acesulfame potassium ) was approved in the United States by the Federal Drug Administration in 1988. It's 200 times sweeter than sugar and, unlike ASPARTAME , …
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Full text Article How Sweet It Is! An Update on Artificial Sweeteners

From Harvard Medical School Commentaries on Health
Artificial sweeteners, also known as non-nutritive sweeteners , are food additives that sweeten food without adding calories. They have no calories because the body doesn't absorb them, or absorbs them in very small quantities. Getting To Know the Sweeteners The U.S. Food and Drug Administration…
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A quick walk down the drink aisle of any corner store reveals the incredible ingenuity of food scientists in search of sweet flavors. In some drinks you’ll find sugar. A diet soda might have an artificial or natural low-calorie sweetener. And found in nearly everything else is high fructose corn…
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From The Deluxe Food Lover's Companion
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From Dictionary of Food: International Food and Cooking Terms from A to Z
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