date:Aug 25, 2014
sity sweeteners, accounting for more than 70 percent of world production in 2013. Indonesia was a distant second, followed by the U.S. and Western Europe.
Diet soft drinks, low-calorie yogurt, and sugar-free jam taste as sweet as their regular counterparts because they contain high-intensity sweeteners, the IHS report notes. Aspartame, sucralose, acesulfame K, saccharin and other high-intensity sweeteners have zero calories, but they are many times sweeter than table sugar. In addition, high-in