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What is the definition or description of: sugar substitute?
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Sugar substitute : Chemical substance of sweet taste with few or no calories.
Answered 12/3/2012
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Artificial sweetner: Sugar subsitites are chemicals that taste like sugar but have no calories and do not change blood sugar when consumed, they include: saccharine, aspartame (equal) sucralose (splenda), and stevia only the stevia is "natural", .
Answered 2/1/2014
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