There is a growing interest and increasing awareness of consumers towards natural food products, therefore there shift in industry to produce foods with ingredients. On the other hand, high amount sweetener use another health concern. An interesting group sweeteners are sweet proteins, which have hundreds/thousands times higher sweetness than sucrose. Sweet proteins but low calorie values as th...

Dental caries (Decay) is an oral disease, caused by the interaction of bacteria, mainly Streptococcus mutans, and sugary foods on tooth enamel. Caries (DC) increased when consumption sugar frequent unhealthy eating habits are practiced. They can begin early in life, progress rapidly those who at high risk, often goes untreated. has multifactorial aetiology which microorganisms have a significan...

To examine whether artificial sweeteners aid in the control of long-term food intake and body weight, we gave free-living, normal-weight subjects 1150 g soda sweetened with aspartame (APM) or high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) per day. Relative to when no soda was given, drinking APM-sweetened soda for 3 wk significantly reduced calorie intake of both females (n = 9) and males (n = 21) and decreas...

The review presents the current state of science for stevia (Stevia rebaudiana Bertony), its biochemical composition, therapeutic properties and using in food industry. Interest this plant, a source natural low-calorie sweeteners, is associated with increased consumption dietary caused by an increase number patients diabetes, metabolic syndrome, many negative effects from use synthetic sweetene...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com rat urine. Therefore, Saccharin induced may not be relevant to any risk to human health [1-3]. On the other hand, reports published by The European Food Safety Authority [4] indicate that low concentrations of low-calorie sweeteners are safe to be consumed by humans. Further research is needed to relate the results obtained from animal studies in or...

pretation of sugarand calorierelated nutrient-content claims through transparent food marketing are needed steps to empower parents to make informed choices. If the FDA revised the current labeling requirements for foods and beverages bearing sugarand calorie-related nutrient-content claims in this way, the replacement of added sugars with other sweet ingredients would be clearly highlighted. A...

Background The use of non-caloric sweeteners can interfere in the regulation of appetite, promoting greater food intake and weight gain. In previous data, our results showed that animals who consumed yogurt with saccharin and aspartame had a increase in weight compared to the group using sucrose. However, as the total calorie intake was similar between the groups, we speculated that weight gain...