SUGAR AND YOUR DIET!

The following are some types of sugars and sweeteners that may be added to foods:
Sucrose (white, refined table sugar) from sugar cane or sugar beet
Confectioner's sugar (powdered sugar)
Brown sugar is sucrose crystals colored with molasses syrup
Dextrose knows as glucose or corn sugar, made from cornstarch
Corn sweetener made from the breakdown of cornstarch
Corn syrup can by abbreviated on a label as HFCS, high fructose corn syrup
Fructose or levulose is used as a sucrose substitute. Fructose does not require insulin to get into the liver and body cells
Fruit juice concentrate is often made from apple juice
Honey can trigger allergic reactions in some individuals
Invert sugar or total invert sugar is a mixture of glucose and fructose. It is sweeter than sucrose and is used in baked goods to prevent food shrinkage
Maple syrup from the sap of a sugar maple tree
Molasses is separated from raw sugar during processing. Darker molasses and blackstrap molasses is superior in providing small amounts of some vitamins and minerals
Raw sugar contains many impurities
Turbinado is partially refined sugar and often called "raw sugar"
Sugar alcohols are metabolized more slowly than sugar yet are eventually used by the body as sugar: sorbitol, mannitol and xylitol. These are used in chewing gum because they are not converted into sugar in the mouth


Nonnutritive sweeteners:

Saccharin is 500x sweeter than sugar
Aspartame is 180 times sweeter than sucrose
Cyclamates are 50 times sweeter than sucrose, use is banned in U.S.



Updates

FDA will allow dental health claim for sucralose
By Craig Palmer cited ADA Today

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it will allow a dental health claim for a sweetener used in gum, soft drinks and other food products. and is confined its review to dental caries, the single most common chronic disease of childhood and a disease for which the general U.S. population is at risk.

The FDA proposed a regulatory amendment adding sucralose to a list of sweeteners authorized to make health claims and offered as an illustrative "model health claim" for product labeling: "Frequent eating of foods high in sugars and starches as between-meal snacks can promote tooth decay. Sucralose, the sweetening ingredient used to sweeten this food, unlike sugars, does not promote tooth decay."

Sucralose is a nonnutritive sweetener used as a sugar substitute in conventional foods and dietary supplements. Not all sucralose formulations are eligible for a dental caries health claim.

"We conclude that there is significant scientific agreement that sucralose does not promote dental caries," the FDA said. "Consumption of products containing sucralose, such as gum and soft drinks, can potentially reduce the risk of dental caries."

The notice was posted online in the Federal Register, official record of government regulatory activity.

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