Aspartame, a low-calorie artificial sweetener, listed as an ingredient in Diet Pepsi. /CFP The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday it is now classifying aspartame, an artificial sweetener commonly used in soft drinks, as "possibly carcinogenic to humans" – though the acceptable daily...
The production of soft drinks requires the preparation of the simple syrup (Fig. 1). The simple syrup is produced by mixing water and sucrose in a stirring tank. After mixing, the simple syrup is pasteurized at 85°C for 5min (or equivalent) to facilitate the sugar dissolution and to ina...
Moreover, soft drinks are the sugar-sweetened beverages more consumed in Mexico [45]. Fourth, changes in soft drinks intake might be explained by modifications in the SFFQ. However, it is unlikely this can explain, at least partially, the findings of our study since the way to ask for ...
Sugar-free fibre every day! Beverages - like sodas, sugary juices and sweet energy drinks – have become a major source of calories and are therefore the target of urgent efforts to improve their profile. Beverages with health benefits are set to continue to boom, with fibre supplementation le...
Body Mass Index Subgroup Analysis of Association Between Artificially Sweetened and Sugar-Sweetened Soft Drinks Consumption and All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality eTable 3. Multivariable Associations of Categories of Soft Drinks Consumption and All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality With and Without Ad...
Percent of added sugar from soft drinks 8% 43% 0.001 NAFLD: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Open in New Tab Full Size Figure Download Figure Figure 2 Daily amount of soft drinks consumption in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) patients with (n = 31) or without metabolic syndrome ...
Reid M, Hammersley R (1998) The effects of blind substitution of aspartame- sweetened for sugar-sweetened soft drinks on appetite and mood. British Food Journal 100: 254-259.Reid M, Hammersley R. The effect of blind substitution of aspartame- sweetened for sugar-sweetened soft drinks on ...
Aspartame, an artificial sweetener, is widely used in soft drinks as a sugar replacement due to its sweetness level, which is approximately 200 times that of sucrose. Aspartame is also unstable and can degrade under certain conditions to diketopiperazine (DKP), a cyclic dipept...
And all that extra sugar isn’t the actual problem. Researchers say that the artificial sweetener aspartame may be to blame. The study found a link but could not surely determine whether sodas and other sweet soft drinks cause depression. Still the results “are consistent with a small but ...
A further low caloric alternative for sugar containing soft drinks are the so called “diet” or “light” soft drinks. Although an interesting alternative for sugar containing soft drinks, the “light” and “diet” soft drinks suffer from bad acceptance. Additionally, these drinks generally conta...