Tag: sweeteners
Food and drinks are getting sweeter. Even if it’s not all sugar, it’s bad for our health
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Humans have an evolutionary preference for sweetness. Sweet foods, like fruit and honey, were an important energy source for our ancestors.
However, in the modern...
Sweeteners may be linked to increased cancer risk – new research
Image: The sweetener aspartame is found is many common foods and drinks, such as diet sodas. Kmpzzz/ Shutterstock
Sweeteners have long been suggested to be bad...
White, brown, raw, honey: which type of sugar is best?
Sugar is sugar in the body. But the way they’re
processed can make small differences. from www.shutterstock.com
In nutrition, sugar refers to simple carbohydrates...