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Diet sodas and drinks sweetened with sugar substitutes contain much less sugar (if any) and far fewer calories than traditional soda. In that way, they can be healthier alternatives to pop.
Following the World Health Organization's announcement that the sweetener in diet soda could be carcinogenic, you might want to consider a healthier alternative to soda. 10 Things to Drink When ...
Even if you’re eating a low-calorie diet, the sugar in soda can add up, making it harder to lose weight. Soda can promote further unwanted weight gain and increase the risk of obesity-related ...
A sugar substitute 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) [2] or low-calorie sweetener. Sugar substitute products are commercially available in various forms, such as small pills, powders and packets.
“A prebiotic soda is simply a soda that contain prebiotic fibers, with the intent to be gut healthy,” Keri Gans, registered dietitian and author of "The Small Change Diet," told TODAY.com.
Diet sodas (also known as sugar-free sodas, zero-calorie sodas, low-calorie sodas or zero-sugar sodas) are soft drinks which contain little or no sugar and/or calories. First introduced onto the market in 1949, diet sodas are typically marketed for those with diabetes or who wish to reduce their sugar or caloric intake.
In the 1990s, several fruit-flavored varieties of Diet Rite were introduced. In 2000, the line was reformulated yet again, this time to replace aspartame with Splenda brand sucralose and Sunett brand acesulfame potassium. It became the first major diet soda in the United States to use neither aspartame nor saccharin as a sweetener.
“We drank Diet Coke, Diet ginger ale, and Diet Sprite like water—there was no difference in our household,” she says. Like many, Howell believed that sugar-free soda was a benign choice.