"Low-calorie" and "sugar-containing"! For many people who are concerned with their own weight or suffering from diabetes, these words sound very tempting.
When it comes to sweets, the first thing that comes to mind is sugar. However, the sweeteners with intensive taste can provide a sweet taste with a dish by adding me meger calorie; In addition, they are much sweeter than a similar amount of sugar. Using sweeteners, you will be content with their small volumes.
Sweeteners with intensive taste are known and under other names: sweeteners that do not have food, very low-calorie sweetening substances or alternative sweeteners. They practically do not supply energy to the body, so the term "non-eating" is applicable to them. For comparison, calorie sugar substances - sugar and sugar alcohols - supply energy in the form of calories.
Sweeteners can become a healthy nutrition element for almost any person. They give products, such as yogurts or puddings, sweet taste, without adding extra calories or dubious nutrients in the quality of nutrients. Another indisputable plus of modern sweetening substances with an intense taste - they do not cause the development of caries of teeth, since they are not carbohydrates.
But do not harm artificial health sweeteners? Probably, no food component was considered by scientists as carefully as sweeteners with an intense taste. Before they began to be used in the production of food or as cutting sweeteners, these substances were subjected to a number of serious tests for compliance with the requirements and standards of security.
Recently, he had a myth that food with intense sweetening substances increases appetite and, thus, is the cause of weight gain. But scientific evidence that sweeteners increase appetite does not exist. Therefore, they can behave in weight control as an additional remedy in the overall approach to healthy nutrition and an active lifestyle.
To date, the use of six sweetening substances with intensive taste is approved in Russia: potassium acesulfama, aspartam, neotama, saccharium, sukloroid and tagaloza. Having left abroad, you can meet Stevioside or Taumatin in the food.