What’s the scoop?

* 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

* Natural or man-made product that is used to sweeten food. * Aspartame, saccharin, stevia, sucralose

* Where have you seen alternative sweeteners?

* ,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

* Sodas, carbonated beverages, juice beverages, coffee syrups * Cookies, crackers, bread, granola bars * Gelatins and puddings * Yogurt * Gum and candy

* 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

* Sweet ‘n’ Low, Equal Saccharin * x 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

* 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

* 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

* This information is to help you answer participant’s questions, not for you to start teaching in your classes.