We all eat sugar! However, when given the choice there are many people that choose to use artificial sweeteners in the place of real sugar. Some people do it without even realizing they are. If you pick a diet soda over a regular one, your drink is made with artificial sweeteners rather than sugar. Nowadays every coffee shop you go to has not one, not two, but at least three different types of artificial sweeteners, plus sugar!
There are so many different artificial sweeteners, and they all say that they’re better than the rest, but are they really any good? They are all man made versions of sugar, a little chemical concoction. Like all things there are good things and bad about these sweeteners.
There are a lot of good perks from substituting artificial sweeteners in place of natural sugar. A lot of people pick the artificial sweeteners over sugar because it has no calories, where as sugar is just empty calories. The artificial sweeteners like Spenda or Sweet n Low may actually have some good benefits over sugar. Artificial sweeteners have no effect on your body’s blood-sugar level, but if you eat sugar it throws your blood-sugar level through a rollercoaster!
You also don’t have to use as much artificial sweetener to get to the sweetness level you want, but you would need more sugar to get there. And because artificial sweeteners don’t have the same empty calories as sugar does, it can be easier to lose wait by substituting artificial sweeteners for sugar.
There are however con’s to consider when comparing artificial sweeteners and sugar. Because they are artificially made some sweeteners still have not been approved by the FDA. And many previous tests of the products have been poorly done in the past. People like them because they are said to have no calories, however that is still unsure as well! We are still learning about these artificial sweeteners that we have created. We still don’t know everything about them. Artificial sweeteners have not been around long enough to know about any long term effects the artificial sweeteners may have. We are the guinea pigs right now. They are still too new for us to really know if artificial sweeteners are good for us.
Where know where sugar comes from, and what it’s doing to our bodies and we’re still learning about all of these new artificial sweeteners. But at least we know what sugar does to us!
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Chrisi Keating
Santa Clara University
Communications Major
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