Artificial sweeteners have increasingly become an area of controversy in the world of food and nutrition. Consumers are oftenly barraged with a number of contradictory opinions and reports regarding the safety and efficacy of sweeteners. Artificial sweetener consumption may cause migraines or headache, skin eruptions, muscle dysfunction, depression, weight gain, liver and kidney effects, multip...

The effects of some synthetic sweeteners on the rheological and physical properties of guar gum in dilute solutions were investigated.Measurements include the determination of intrinsic viscosity and the particle size, surface weighted mean [D3, 2], volume weighted mean [D4,3] and specificsurface area ofguar gum andsyntheticsweeteners mixtures. T...

Cyclamate is widely used as intense sweetener in the European Union. The absence of a maximum limit for the use of cyclamate in tabletop sweeteners and the growing demand for this type of product highlights the importance of developing robust analytical methods for the determination of its content to understand if the consumption of tabletop sweeteners can have a negative impact on human health...

Glycation is a non-enzymatic reaction between the carbonyl groups of sugars and the amino groups of proteins, nucleic acids and lipids. This process results in the formation of early glycation products, which rearrange to form more stable advanced glycation end products (AGEs). Glycation has been linked to a number of diseases such as, Alzheimer’s, diabetes mellitus, cataract, Parkinson’s, phys...

Wheat flours mixed with four types of sweeteners; sugarcane, palm sugar, coconut sugar and sorbitol were evaluated for their in vitro starch digestibility, estimated glycemic index (GI) and physicochemical properties. It was found that sorbitol which is a sugar alcohol gave the best starch digestibility results providing the lowest estimated GI values. Palm and coconut sugars provided better st...

Diabetes, one of the most common diseases in world, causes a decrease formation macrophages, endothelial cells, keratinocytes, platelets, and, fibroblasts, which play role cellular response to tissue damage wound healing, and cytokines they secrete, inflammatory mediators, or growth factors, making healing difficult. As period wounds increases, psychology patients is adversely affected by inabi...

Brewers’ spent grains (BSG) make up to 85% of a brewery’s solid waste, and is either sent landfill or sold as cheap animal feed supplement. Xylo-oligosaccharides (XOS) obtained from BSG are antioxidants prebiotics that can be used in food formulations low-calorie sweeteners texturisers. The effect extremely low acid (ELA) catalysis liquid hot water (LHW) hydrothermal treatment (HTT) was assesse...