Add Sweetness to Your Life With Natural Sweeteners!!

Posted by Sweetener India on September 2nd, 2015

Add Sweetness to Your Life With Natural Sweeteners!!

These days many people are getting diabetes due to which they are not able to have sweets or sweetness of different foods, also they are not able to have several food items. Somewhere, the sweetness is getting lost in the lives of the diabetic patients.

Also, now there is a trend towards health, figure and fitness which is increasing day by day. Because of urbanization, sedentary life styles and excessive consumption of junk foods containing high amount fat and even sugar, obesity is increasing day by day. Due to obesity, diabetes is increasing as obesity is a chief factor for type ll diabetes. We need to stop this.

Reducing diabetes from India

Today’s generation is very much calorie conscious and thus increasing the demand for low calorie and no sugar foods. So, here comes the role of Sucralose in the food products. It reduces calorie and thus reduces the sugar from the diet, so consumption of foods sweetened by sucralose is safe and healthy.

There are many sweetening agents introduced these days to help out with all the problems relating with the sugar containing foods. There are low calorie sweeteners for calorie conscious people and diabetic sugar substitutes for diabetic people. There are many sugar substitutes used by sweetener suppliers in India to help out the population of India which consumes the world’s largest sugar in domestic consumption.

Some sugar substitutes

There many sweetening agents used these days for making the food calorie less and healthy for consumption. Some of the sugar substitutes are –

• Aspartame – It is a non-saccharide sweetener used in many foods and beverages. It is approximately 200 times sweeter than sucrose. It is used in soft drinks, diet sodas, gelatine desserts, tea, instant coffee, juices, milk drinks and many more food products

• Neotame – It is an artificial sweetener, which is 7000-13000 times sweeter than sucrose.  It is used is many food products to give the foods a sweetening taste.

• Sucralose – It is about 320-1000 times as sweet as sucrose, twice sweet as saccharine and thrice sweet as aspartame. It reduces the calorie in your body.

Stevia – 300 times sweeter than Sugar ....Natural Sweetener

• Erythritol – It is having low calorie and tastes like sugar. It is used in baking cakes, cookies and biscuits. It gives the baked food longer freshness and softness

• Isomalt – It is a type of sugar alcohol used primarily for its sugar-like physical properties. It is suitable for using in tablets, capsules and sachet fillings

• Maltitol – It is a bulk sweetener and has pleasant sweet taste similar to sucrose

• Xylitol – It is a naturally occurring carbohydrate that tastes and looks just like the regular sugar we use

• Sorbitol – It act as a good and useful sugar replacer which include chewing gums.

Know about what you can take with sweetening agents

Most of the food products these days are substituted with sweetening agents to lower the calorie value. The food products in which sugar substitutes are used are ice creams, soft drinks like pepsi, coke, diet coke, Diet pepsi, soda drinks , etc.