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Use natural sweetener Stevia instead of aspartame |
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Wednesday, 07 July 2004 |
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Food for Thought
Spring is "diet season." After succumbing to the gustatory temptations of the holidays, people seek to undo the damage wrought by that one extra slice of pumpkin pie. A common strategy is to substitute artificial sweeteners for sugar to reduce the number of calories consumed.
The most common artificial sweetener used in the United States today is aspartame, which is marketed under the brand names Nutrasweet and Equal. Aspartame is 200 times sweeter than sugar, and can be found in 6,000 foods including the best selling diet sodas Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi.
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Sugar Free Valentine's Day Indulgence |
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Written by Administrator
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Wednesday, 07 July 2004 |
This Valentine's Day indulge with delicious desserts like chocolate-covered strawberries made with stevia since there's no need for sugar or chemical sweeteners for this and other mouthwatering desserts, according to Sensational Stevia Desserts cookbook author Lisa Jobs.
In addition to the lower sugar content, the chocolate sauce used for these strawberries has no high fructose corn syrup, mono-glycerides, di-glycerides, polysorbate 80 or other undesirable ingredients found in commercial chocolate syrups.
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 03 February 2007 )
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Written by Web Master
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Saturday, 12 June 2004 |
Stevia (also called sweetleaf, sweet leaf or sugarleaf) is a genus of about 150 species of herbs and shrubs in the sunflower family (Asteraceae), native to subtropical and tropical South America and Central America. As a sweetener, stevia's sweet taste has a slower onset and longer duration than that of sugar, although some of its extracts may have a bitter or liquorice-like aftertaste at high concentrations.
With its extracts having up to 300 times the sweetness of sugar, stevia has garnered attention with the rise in demand for low-carbohydrate, low-sugar food alternatives. Stevia also has shown promise in medical research for treating such conditions as obesity and high blood pressure. Stevia has negligible effect on blood glucose, therefore it is attractive as a natural sweetener to diabetics and others on carbohydrate-controlled diets. However, health and political controversies have limited stevia's availability in many countries; for example, the United States banned it in the early 1990s. Stevia is widely used as a sweetener in Japan, and it is now available in the US and Canada as a food supplement, although not as a food additive. |
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 03 February 2007 )
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