What are the common food sweeteners?

Lead: Sweeteners are food additives that give sweetness to soft drinks. Sweeteners can be divided into nutritional sweeteners and non-nutritive dieticidal sweeteners according to their nutritional value; they can be divided into low sweetener sweeteners and high sweetness sweetener I according to their sweetness; Natural sweeteners and synthetic sweeteners. Today Xiao Bian gave you a brief introduction to several common food sweeteners in your daily life!

Xylitol is a commonly used sweetener. Sugar substitutes that can be used as special foods for people with diabetes have been used abroad as substitutes for sugar for many years. Xylitol has a sweet taste similar to that of sucrose. In the past, some people have said that it has a hypoglycemic effect, but this is a lack of scientific basis. Xylitol should not be used for more than 50 grams a day, otherwise it will cause diarrhea, in addition, no other toxic side effects have been found.

Lo Han Guo Tang is extracted from China's endemic plant - Mangosteen, sweetness is about 300 times that of sucrose, there is a characteristic Luo Han Guo flavor. The Luohanuo has been used in China for three hundred years. It belongs to the category of food and medicine according to the provisions of Article 50 of the Food Safety Law of the People's Republic of China.

Saccharin is the most familiar chemical synthetic sweetener. The sweetness is 300 times stronger than sucrose, and the sweetness is very little, but it is rather bitter. After saccharin enters the body, it is not metabolized by the tissues and remains as it is from the kidneys. Although saccharin is not toxic, it is also not commonly used because animal toxicity tests have shown that it is weakly carcinogenic and therefore has been banned by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. However, intermittent and small amounts of application are not significant. At home and abroad, there have been no reports of its true human cancer.

Aspartame (aspartic acid phenylalanine methyl ester, also known as sweetener), 200 times sweeter than sucrose, with a refreshing sweet taste, without the bitterness or astringency of metallic sweeteners or after metal Taste, taste close to sucrose. Aspartame is toxic to patients with phenylketonuria after hydrothermal hydrolysis. Therefore, GB2760-2011 "National Food Safety Standard for Food Additives" stipulates that aspartame should be labeled as "Aspartame (containing phenylalanine)".

Neosweet, sweetness is about 7000 to 13000 times that of sucrose, with a pure, sweet taste similar to sucrose, almost no bitter taste, metallic taste, sour taste and salty taste and other taste, showing a cool feeling. It can also maintain or even improve the good taste of sweetness, salty taste, and sourness of foods, while it can also reduce and mask the bad tastes such as bitterness and astringency and certain irritating odors.