Canada health has just allowed the néotame, a new sweetener of synthesis that would have a power sweetening from 7 000 times to 13 000 times more elevated than the sucre1. The is added thus to other food additives – the aspartame, the sucralose and – of the category said of the sweeteners extracts that allow the preparation of food weak content in calories.
Will the consumers note the difference between the last member of the family of the synthesis sweeteners and the other? According to nutritionist Helen Baribeau, it is probably a good news for the agroalimentary industry, because the power sweetening the néotame is if raised that the manufacturers will make savings. ” It is not however certain that the consumer can see a difference with regard to the taste or the price of food”, she/it adds.
To avoid the trap of the sweeteners
The people who want to lose the weight should let themselves take to the trap of them ” food sweetened by sweeteners extracts”, counsel the nutritionist. ” Although they contain little or not of the all of calories, affirm Helen Baribeau, these sweeteners don’t incite people to listen to their feeling of repletion”. on the contrary, they will tend to eat a food more says ” low-calorie”, under pretext that he/it should not have them fattened, she/it specifies. A cake sweetened with an artificial sweetener won’t give a lot of calories, but it is an important contribution in hydrates of carbon. ” If you eat a lot of it, you get fat”, she/it gives as example.
The diabetics as often consume food prepared with sweeteners extracts. The experts generally recommend them to have resort to the artificial sweeteners in order to reduce their consumption of sugar.
At the time of tests led by topics affected by diabetes of type 22, some Québecois researchers demonstrated that the aspartame could have some effects similar to those of sugar on the blood sugar. According to the searcher who led these tests, Annie Ferland, these results don’t mean that the sweeteners extracts are dangerous. The diabetics must know however that an artificial sweetener won’t necessarily guarantee them the mastery of their blood sugar.
According to Isabelle Galibois, professeure of nutrition to the Laval university and specialist of the diabetes, this type of sweetener can be useful for the diabetics. ” It doesn’t mean that one must consume some; that stays a personal choice”, she/it specifies. They must avoid however that these sweeteners replace really nourishing food.
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