Sugar FREEEE!!!!!!!! Healthy???????
A sugar substitute or artificial sweetener is a food additive that provides a sweetness like that of sugar while containing significantly less food energy than sugar-based sweeteners , making it a zero-calorie ( non-nutritive) or low- calorie sweetener . Artificial sweeteners may be derived from plant extracts or processed by chemical synthesis. High-intensity sweeteners, one type of sugar substitute, are compounds with many times the sweetness of sucrose ( common table sugar). As a result, much less sweetener is required and energy contribution is often negligible. The sensation of sweetness caused by these compounds is sometimes notably different from sucrose, so they are often used in complex mixtures that achieve the most intense sweet sensation...