Introduction: Dental caries is a disease that produced by the dissolution of local chemical surfaces teeth caused product microbial fermentation from dietary carbohydrates in biofilm attached to teeth. Sugar especially sucrose most important factors etiology dental caries. Dietary modification have been recommended order reduce fermentable carbohydrate intake needed cariogenic microorganism pro...

Aspartame, a widespread sweetener used in many food products, is considered as a highly hazardous compound. Aspartame was discovered in 1965 and raises a lot of controversy up to date. Astrocytes are glial cells, the presence and functions of which are closely connected with the central nervous system (CNS). The aim of this article is to demonstrate the direct and indirect role of astrocytes pa...

To explore reward substitution in the context of voluntary exercise, female mice from four replicate high-runner (HR) lines (bred for wheel running) and four non-selected control (C) lines were given simultaneous access to wheels and palatable solutions as competing rewards (two doses of saccharin [0.1, 0.2% w/v]; two doses of common artificial sweetener blends containing saccharin [Sweet 'N Lo...

BACKGROUND There is a lack of appetite studies in free-living subjects supplying the habitual diet with either sucrose or artificially sweetened beverages and foods. Furthermore, the focus of artificial sweeteners has only been on the energy intake (EI) side of the energy-balance equation. The data are from a subgroup from a 10-wk study, which was previously published. OBJECTIVE The objective...

Sugar is a natural high-calorie sweetener. Its excessive consumption associated with health problems such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and degenerative issues. The stevia plant great substitute. It provides no calories has medicinal properties oral antibacterial, hypoglycemic, anti-hypertensive high nutritional value. In this work, the effects of temperature air velocity in drying kinet...

Osteoporosis is a major public health problem. Exogenous estrogen or Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) the potential therapy for osteoporosis. Still, patient rarely chooses this treatment because of risk breast and endometrial cancer. Phytoestrogens estrogen-like compounds, particularly isoflavones, are potentially safe alternative to HRT. Jicama (Pachyrhizus erosus) plant that contains many ph...

Sweetener synergy is the phenomenon in which certain combinations of sweeteners work more effectively than theoretical sum effects each components. It provides benefits reducing sweetener dosages and improving their sweetness. Many mixtures with synergistic have been reported up to now. Both artificial high-intensity natural are popularly used for synergism, although former seem display potenti...

Aspartame is a widely used artificial sweetener that has been linked to pediatric and adolescent migraines. Upon ingestion, aspartame is broken, converted, and oxidized into formaldehyde in various tissues. We present the first case series of aspartame-associated migraines related to clinically relevant positive reactions to formaldehyde on patch testing.

Objective: Stevia (Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni) is a natural and healthyalternative sweetener to sugar and artificial sweeteners, which has become important for human diets and food manufactures. In this study, the effects of stevia or sucralose as tea sweeteners on glycemic and lipid profile of type 2 diabetic patients were investigated. Materials and Methods:</str...