Artificial Sweeteners

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Artificial Sweeteners

• Good or Bad?

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Carbohydrates
Do do do dout do!
Honey! Honey!
Sugar! Sugar!
You are my candy guy!!
And I find myself wanting you
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History of Food Additives

• Smoke
• Fermentation
• Salt
• Saltpeter
• Spices

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History of Food Additives

• Honey
• Vanilla
• Vitamin C
• Iodized Salt
• Vitamin D

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Food Additives Ranked in Highest Risk Category by

• Individual Consumers
• Consumer Activists
• Professionals in Non-Food Fields

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Food Additives Ranked in Lowest Risk Category by

• FDA
• Food Scientists
• Professionals in Food-Related Fields

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Sucrose - Is it only sweet?
Sucrose
Neohesperidin dihydro chalcon
Sweetness
Saccharin
Time
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Saccharin

• Discovered-1879
• 500 X sweeter than sucrose
• Bladder cancer in mice 1977
• Public outcry by consumers
• Recent studies-no cancer

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Cyclamates

• 30 X sweeter than sucrose
• 20 years on market
• Banned in 1970
• Canada permits
• Repeated studies-no cancer

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AspartameNutrisweet

• Discovered Recently
• Non-nutritive
• 200 times sweeter than sugar
• Combination of 2 amino acids
• Phenylalanine
• Aspartic acid - Methyl ester

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AspartameHealth and other Considerations

• Phenylketonurics
• Methanol Poisoning
• Brain tumors-Headaches
• Heating destroys aspartame

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Fructose

• A common simple sugar
• 1 1/2 X sweeter than sucrose
• Same calories-use less
• Made from sucrose by enzymes
• Dominates soft drink market

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Polyols

• Xylitol
• Mannitol- not very sweet
• Sorbitol
• Microbes cant use
• Very cooling taste

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Acesulfame-K

• Sunette-Sweet One
• As sweet as Aspartame
• Heat stable
• Used in chewing gum, beverages, instant coffee,
  puddings

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Acesulfame-K web

• Vitasweet
• Supersweet
• Healthy Reliable
• Excellent stability solubility
• Economical blending
• Synergy combined with other sweeteners.
• Produced by Chinese factory with nice quality
  better price.

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Acesulfame-K

• Formulated by the Germans in the late 1960s
• Approved by FDA 1988
• Stable to heat
• Widely used in baked goods, candies and imitation
  dairy products.

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Sucralose

• A chlorinated sugar-not digestible
• Not approved by the FDA now
• Used in Australia and Canada under the brand name
  Splendar
• This crystalline, free-flowing sweetener is both
  water soluble and stable, making it appropriate
  for a broad range of foods and beverages.

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Alitame

• Two amino acids
• Heat stable
• Although not sanctioned for use in the United
  States now
• Alitame is expected to soon become FDA approved.

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Artifical Sweeteners and Weight Loss

• Students consumed the same amount in addition to
  above
• Rats consumed more
• Aspartame-Humans consume more
• Artificial sweeteners prepare body for calories
  which it doesnt get
• Sugar spoils the appetite

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Artificial Sweeteners
GOOD OR BAD?