Artificial sweeteners. So many substitutes for sugar are showing up in supermarkets that the choice can be “overwhelming.” If you’re diabetic, you’ve probably tried zero-calorie synthetic sweeteners like sucralose (Splenda), aspartame (Equal), and saccharin (Sweet’N Low). They don’t aid weight loss, though, because they trigger food cravings.
Sugar alcohols. Sugar alcohols occur naturally in fruit, but they’re also manufactured and “can be easily identified on ingredient labels by the ‘ol’ endings”: maltitol, sorbitol, etc. Calorie-free erythritol is sold for home use as ZSweet and Zero, and tastes like sugar in sweetened drinks and baked goods.
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