Today a percentage of the population is addicted to sugar and over the years sugar has been given a bad reputation that if you consume too much you will have a higher risk of developing some type of disease. Well in attempt to live a healthy life, people today are relying on artificial sweeteners. With this notion, the question still today is whether or not artificial sweeteners are healthier then just consuming regular table sugar. This paper will discuss the adverse affects of consuming artificial sweeteners and the effects they have on a person’s body.
First, we have hydroortho-sulfa mine benzoic acid, also known as saccharin. With a name like that, its no wonder we refer to it as saccharin or that little pink packet. The molecular formula of saccharin is C7H5NO3S. Saccharin was first discovered in 1878 by a chemist named Constatin Fahlberg. He discovered saccharin when he didn’t wash his hands after fumbling with coal tar while working in the coal industry. Saccharin is three hundred times sweeter than regular sugar. If consumed in large quantities it can leave a chemical aftertaste. Saccharin is known to be in low fat jams, sodas, baked goods, as well as cough syrup.
Saccharin is an artificial sweetener that doesn’t get metabolized in our body. There is only a small trace of hydrolytic products detected in our urine. Therefore, saccharin goes through our body unchanged and not metabolized.
In addition, Saccharin has been known for potentially causing bladder cancer, but according to wpi.edu,“This study was disproved first because of the unreasonably high dosages of saccharin that rats were given, and secondly because differences in the mechanism in which saccharin produced bladder 55 cancer in rats were revealed.. Sodi...
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...l believe today that consuming too much of these artificial sweeteners can cause some real problems in our body.
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Aspartame, or more commonly known as NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful and Equal Measure; was discovered purely by chance in 1965 by a chemist named James M. Schlatter, who was testing an antacid drug (Prantini; 2014). The commercial industry believed that “a wonder product” had been discovered, which stood to revolutionise the food industry as an artificial sweetener. Aspartame is an artificial sweetener which is found in many of our foods and beverages universally. Aspartame is two-hundred times sweeter than sugar and is commonly used as a tabletop sweetener, a sweetener in prepared foods, diet foods or drinks, flavored waters, chewing gum, condiments and is even found in flavoring of medicines. It is found in majority of our food products marketed for weight control (Prantini; 2014). Aspartame has a sweeter taste in comparison to sugar, and therefore less of the sweetener can be used in food products in order to achieve the same level of sweetness as if sugar was used; which results in an individual consuming fewer calories and less sugar (American Cancer Society; 2014).
Abstract: The use of high fructose corn syrup as a sweetener in various food and drink products has drastically affected the American people in the last three decades. Dominating 55% of the sweetener market because of its industrial benefits, HFCS’s increased use has caused dramatic effects in its consumers, including upsetting normal hormonal functions, destroying vital organs, nerves, and throwing off the body’s mineral balance. As the use of HFCS increased, the rates of obesity, diabetes, and related health problems have escalated, resulting in a nationwide epidemic.
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Sugarcane was domesticated some 10000 years ago on the island of New Guinea. It reached the mainland around 1000 BC. In the 17th century, sugar became an item of less luxury and hence consumption spread to the middle class as well as to the poor. The average sugar intake by an individual has however steadily been on the rise since the 17th century. Early consumption of sugar was on average 4 pounds a year. In the 18th century the average intake went up to 18 pounds a year and reached its highest levels in the 19th century to 100 pounds. At the present, we are consuming around 77 pounds a year. The drop in sugar consumptions is mainly credited to the introduction of High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) (Cohen 1,3). Since the 1970, when HFCS was first introduced, the intake of it has been on a steady rise (U.S. 2). Its use has been widely spread in the U.S. due to it being cheaper than sugar. The government limits the production of domestic sugar and places import tariffs on foreign sugar making it a very expensive commodity in the U.S. However, at the same time, it subsidizes corn production and therefore lowers its price significantly (“How” 2). Only in the most recent years, has the consumption of HFCS been dropped, mostly due to the higher awareness by the public (U.S. 2). Due to its inexpensiveness, this ingredient has replaced a big part of the sugar usage and is included in most every day foods like: “bread, cereal, ketchup, sodas, pasta, and many others. HFCS, a sugar substitute, however is more dangerous to our health than sugar, otherwise known as the white evil, ever was.
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