Artificial Sweeteners & Diabetes Part 2

Choices of Sweeteners

The FDA has a list of approved artificial sweeteners for use in foods. The artificial sweeteners available on the market include aspartame (nutra sweet, equal), Saccharin (Sweet N Low, sugar Twin,), Acesulfame (Sunett, sweet one) and sucralose (Splenda). Of these aspartame is the least recommended for both diabetics or non diabetics. Of all the artificial sweeteners that can be used by diabetics, Saccharin is the most widely recommended.

Concern

For the past 2 decades, artificial sweeteners have received a lot of media attention regarding their safety. The internet is full of anecdotal stores about artificial sweeteners and how they cause cancer. Rest assured, these artificial sweeteners have been thoroughly studied by the National Cancer Institute. These sweeteners are quite safe and have no ability to cause cancer. However, the only one of concern is aspartame is that it is not safe for individuals who have a hereditary disease called phenyl ketonuria.

What the consumer has to understand is that just taking sugar away from the diet does not make the food low calorie. If one eats too much of any food, calories will be added and one will get fat. The one major difference between sugar free products and natural fruits/vegetables is that the former foods almost never provide adequate amount of valuable nutrients.

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