Organic brown rice syrup (OBRS) is a sweetener frequently used as an alternative to high-fructose corn syrup in organic and health food products. In a study of children’s foods, a team of researchers discovered high levels of arsenic in toddler formula products that contained OBRS. Given evidence that arsenic accumulates in rice at high levels, the researchers suspected OBRS was the source of t...

The dipeptide aspartame (NutraSweet) is a newly approved and widely used artificial sweetener in foods and beverages. Consumption of aspartame (ASM) has been reported to be responsible for neurologic and behavioral disturbances in sensitive individuals. Unfasted male CD-1 mice were dosed orally with 13, 130, or 650 mg/kg ASM in corn oil, while control animals received corn oil alone. Three hour...

Alternative sweeteners are widely advocated and used. However, there is insufficient scientific information to determine whether alternative sweeteners aer of value in the management of diabetes, either in improving dietary adherence or in contributing to the achievement or maintenance of a lower body weight. Each of the available sweeteners has advantages and disadvantages; no one is preferred...

Aspartame (APM) is a widely used artificial sweetener consumed by hundreds of millions of people around the world . It is found in more than 6,000 products, including soft drinks, chewing gum, candy, yoghurt, tabletop sweeteners and some pharmaceuticals such as vitamins and sugar-free cough drops. Dietary surveys, performed among APM consumers, have shown that the average APM daily intake in th...

Background The use of non-caloric sweeteners can interfere in the regulation of appetite, promoting greater food intake and weight gain. In previous data, our results showed that animals who consumed yogurt with saccharin and aspartame had a increase in weight compared to the group using sucrose. However, as the total calorie intake was similar between the groups, we speculated that weight gain...

Noncaloric functional beverages are a key segment in the rapidly growing functional food market. Erythritol, an all-natural bulk sweetener, offers sensorial as well as functional benefits for use in such beverages. It can improve taste quality by adding body and mouthfeel, and it is capable of masking unwanted off-flavors often associated with intense sweeteners. In addition, erythritol can str...

This study aimed to analyze Ariana Grande‟s song lyrics in the album “Sweetener”. used a descriptive research method. The result of word formation showed that there is one process borrowing type. In second aspect, coinage appears two data. third compounding five fourth mixing seven fifth clipping three eighth inflection as and last, derivation six

The ancient Greeks observed that men heavily exposed to lead became sterile. But this knowledge was not passed to the Romans, who stored their drinking water and their wine in lead-lined containers. Romans also added lead to some of their drinks as a sweetener. Based on examination of lead in Roman bones, some historians conclude that the Roman upper classes probably couldn't reproduce themselv...