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Archetypal examples include: RTE cereals, white breads, fast food, other convenience meals, cured meat dishes, smoked/fried meats, fried dough foods, shallow/deep fried potatoes, other foods intensely fried in rendered fat/refined oil, sugary/fatty discretionary foods (e.g., sauce, candy), colas and other sweetened soft drinks.
In North America, common sugar substitutes include aspartame, monk fruit extract, saccharin, sucralose and stevia. Cyclamate is prohibited from being used as a sweetener within the United States, but is allowed in other parts of the world. [3] Sorbitol, xylitol and lactitol are examples of sugar alcohols (also known as polyols). These are, in ...
Inverted sugar syrup [1] – Pursuant to Code of Federal Regulation 21CFR184.1859, invert sugar is an "aqueous solution of inverted or partly inverted, refined or partly refined sucrose, the solids of which contain not more than 0.3 percent by weight of ash. The solution is colorless, odorless, and flavorless, except for sweetness.
Some sweeteners made with starch are quite refined and made by degrading purified starch with enzymes, such as corn syrup. Barley malt syrup is made from germinated barley grains. [11] Brown rice malt syrup is made from rice grains cooked and then cultured with malt enzymes. [12] Amazake is made from rice fermented with Koji (Aspergillus oryzae ...
Sucralose: (C 12 H 19 Cl 3 O 8) Black Carbon, White Hydrogen, Green Chloride, Red Oxygen. Sucralose is an artificial sweetener and sugar substitute.As the majority of ingested sucralose is not metabolized by the body, it adds very little food energy (14 kJ [3.3 kcal] per gram). [3]
Stevia (/ ˈ s t iː v i ə, ˈ s t ɛ v i ə /) [1] [2] is a sweet sugar substitute that is about 50 to 300 times sweeter than sugar. [3] It is extracted from the leaves of Stevia rebaudiana, a plant native to areas of Paraguay and Brazil.
The most agreed-upon recommendation is for the diet to be low in sugar and refined carbohydrates, while relatively high in dietary fiber, especially soluble fiber. Likewise, people with diabetes may be encouraged to reduce their intake of carbohydrates that have a high glycemic index (GI), although the ADA and Diabetes UK note that further ...
White sugar (and some brown sugar) produced from sugar cane may be refined using bone char by a few sugar cane refiners. [3] Beet sugar has never been processed with bone char and is vegan. [4] In modern times, activated carbon and ion-exchange resin may be used – see Sugar refinery § Purification.