This controversial natural sweetener substitute has been off and on the FDA's list of banned additives.
Agave syrup isn't a viable sweetener substitute in all cases, says Iliana de la Vega, Latin Cuisines specialist for the Culinary Institute of America's San Antonio branch.
I cut out sodas and sweeteners, substituted turkey for beef.
Using artificial sweeteners as substitutes is often not a culinary possibility and may not be desirable from the standpoint of either health or weight.
Artificial sweeteners simply substitute one addiction for another.
Truvia, sold by Cargill, is a relatively new entry in the crowded category of low- and no-calorie sweeteners that are substitutes for sugar, among which are aspartame, saccharin, sucralose and, increasingly, plant-based sweeteners.
Dr. Barbara Rolls and her colleagues at Pennsylvania State University have done short-term studies using non-nutritive sweeteners as sugar substitutes to reduce energy intake.
Sometimes vegetable oil goes into chocolate bars, or pomegranate juice, wine, coffee, honey or olive oil is adulterated with water, sweeteners or cheaper substitutes.
This is an approach with popular appeal — a growing proportion of the public views artificial sweeteners and fat substitutes with suspicion, so many companies are looking instead for natural products.
The agency's scope is so sweeping – encompassing cardiac pacemakers, x-ray machines, condoms, home pregnancy testing kits, drugs, vaccines, artificial sweeteners and fat substitutes, among other products – that a single person cannot be expected to master the body of science, medicine, pharmacology, toxicology and engineering (to say nothing of the law and "regulatory science") involved.
