what’s the scoop?. * what is your favorite sweet treat?
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What’s the scoop?
*Alternative Sweeteners
*Partner Interaction
*What is your favorite sweet treat?
*Added Sugars
*Manufactured foods/added during cooking
*Candy bars, soda, fruit drinks
*Sugar, sucrose, fructose, high fructose corn syrup, maltose, dextrose, invert sugar, malt syrup, fruit juice concentrate, corn sweetener, brown sugar, lactose, honey, molasses, raw sugar, syrup
*Empty calories
*Added Sugars
*What are alternative sweeteners?
*Natural or man-made product that is used to sweeten food.
*Aspartame, saccharin, stevia, sucralose
*Partner Interaction
*Where have you seen alternative sweeteners?
*Some basic info
*200 - 8,000 times as sweet as white sugar
*Most can be used as a substitute to sugar in recipes
*In large amounts, may cause gastrointestinal distress
*Let’s Make a List!
*Common products with alternative
sweeteners
*Sodas, carbonated beverages, juice beverages, coffee syrups
*Cookies, crackers, bread, granola bars
*Gelatins and puddings
*Yogurt
*Gum and candy
*Stevia
*Truvia, PureVia and SweetLeaf
*200x sweeter than sugar
*Made from an herb
*Can be used in cooking and baking
*Calorie free
*No Acceptable Daily Intake established yet
*Saccharin
*Sweet ‘n’ Low, Equal Saccharin
*300-500x sweeter than sugar
*Man-made
*Can be used in cooking and baking
*Calorie free
*Acceptable Daily Intake is 5 mg/kg of body weight = 9-12 packets of sweetener a day
*Aspartame
*Equal, NutraSweet, and NatraTaste Blue
*200x sweeter than sugar
*Man-made
*Not heat stable; cannot use in cooking and baking
*Most often used in diet soda
*Does have calories but very few
*Acceptable Daily Intake: 50 mg/kg body weight = 18 or 19 cans of diet soda a day
*Sucralose
*Splenda, Nutrataste Gold, Equal Sucralose
*600x sweeter than sugar
*Made by converting sugar molecules so the body cannot digest
*Can be used in cooking and baking
*Calorie free
*Acceptable Daily Intake is 5 mg/kg of body weight = 6 cans of diet soda a day
*Let’s Taste It!
*Role Play!
*Take Away Message
*This information is to help you answer participant’s questions, not for you to start teaching in your classes.