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✨What’s the Story on Alternative Sweeteners?✨ Voca ocabbular ulary y Nutriti utritive ve SSweeteners: weeteners: Sweeteners such as sucrose, fructose, honey, and brown sugar that contribute energy Sug Sugar ar Alco Alcoho ho hols ls ls:: Other nutritive sweeteners such as mannitol, sorbitol, isomalt, and xylitol Nonn onnutriti utriti utritive ve ve//Alternat Alternatiive SSweeteners: weeteners: Products developed to sweeten foods without promoting tooth decay and weight gain which provide little or no energy Accepta cceptabble Daily Intak Intakee (ADI): Estimates of the amount of a nonnutritive sweetener that someone can consume each day over a lifetime without adverse effects Saccharin: A sweetener that is about 300 times sweeter than sucrose Acesulf cesulfame ame Potassium (A (Acesulf cesulf cesulfame-K): ame-K): Calorie-free sweetener that is 200 times sweeter than sugar and is marketed under the names Sunette and Sweet One Aspartame Aspartame:: One of the most popular alternative sweeteners currently in use, which is composed of two amino acids (phenylalanine and aspartic acid) and is also called Equal and NutraSweet Phenylk henylketo eto eton nuria (PKU): Genetic disorder that prevents the breakdown of the amino acid phenylalanine Sucra Sucralose: lose: A sweetener made from sucrose and marketed under the brand name Splenda Neotame eotame:: An alternative sweetener that is 7,000 times sweeter than sugar Stevia: An alternative sweetener produced from a purified extract of the stevia plant native to South America, which is 200 times sweeter than sugar Advantame: An alternative sweetener that is calorie-free and 20,000 time sweeter than sugar Important FFacts acts ● Foods with sugar alcohols have health benefits that foods made with sugars do not have, such as a reduced glycemic response and decreased risk of dental caries. ● Because sugar alcohols are absorbed slowly and incompletely from the intestine, they provide less energy than sugar, usually 2 to 3 kcal of energy per gram. ● The body does not metabolize acesulfame-K, so it is excreted unchanged by the kidneys. ● The ADI for acesulfame-K is 15 mg per kg of body weight per day. ● The ADI for aspartame is 50 mg per kg of body weight per day. ● Because a person with PKU cannot metabolize phenylalanine, it builds up to toxic levels in the tissues of the body and causes irreversible brain damage. ● The ADI for sucralose is 5 mg per kg of body weight per day....