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ENDULZANTE NUTRITIVO [2 records]

Record 1 2012-01-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Food Additives
  • Dietetics
  • Sugar Industry
CONT

Sweeteners that contribute calories to the diet are called caloric or nutritive sweeteners. All common caloric sweeteners have the same composition: they contain fructose and glucose in essentially equal proportions. All caloric sweeteners require processing to produce a food-grade product.

CONT

Artificial sweeteners have been classified as nutritive and non-nutritive depending on whether they are a source of calories. The nutritive sweeteners include the mono-saccharide polyols (for example, sorbitol, mannitol, and xylitol) and the disaccharide polyols (for example, maltitol and lactitol). They are approximately equivalent to sucrose in sweetness (Dills, 1989).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Additifs alimentaires
  • Diététique
  • Sucrerie (Industrie de l'alimentation)
CONT

Les édulcorants nutritifs comprennent les sucres, les sirops de sucre et les polyalcools. On les considère comme des « édulcorants nutritifs » ou des édulcorants caloriques parce qu’ils fournissent de l’énergie.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Aditivos alimentarios
  • Dietética
  • Industria azucarera
CONT

Endulzantes nutritivos o calóricos. Su valor calórico por unidad de peso es igual a la sacarosa. En este grupo se incluyen la fructosa o levulosa, el jarabe de maíz, la dextrosa y los polialcoholes (sorbitol, manitol, xilitol, lactitol, maltitol). Deben considerarse como parte de la comida por su valor calórico. Se encuentran en forma de edulcorantes de mesa (fructosa); en alimentos, bebidas y fármacos (fructosa, dextrosa, jarabe de maíz) y en chicles y caramelos (polialcoholes).

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Record 2 2011-08-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Food Additives
  • Dietetics
  • Sugar Industry
CONT

Artificial sweeteners have been classified as nutritive and non-nutritive depending on whether they are a source of calories. ... The non-nutritive sweeteners, better known as artificial sweeteners, include substances from several different chemical classes that interact with taste receptors ...

CONT

Artificial sweeteners are sugar-substitutes. There are 2 kinds ..., nutritive and non-nutritive. Nutritive sweeteners provide some calories, non-nutritive sweeteners typically provide zero calories. ... Non-nutritive artificial sweeteners are intensely sweet - between 200-700 times sweeter than sugar. They add sweetness to foods for people (like diabetics) who need to limit their intake of sugar. They contain little or no calories or glycemic response (impact on blood sugar levels). ... FDA [Food and Drug Administration] has approved 4 nonnutritive sweeteners and regulates them as food additives: saccharin (on an interim basis pending additional study), aspartame, acesulfame potassium (or acesulfame-K), and sucralose.

OBS

Non-nutritive sweeteners, also known as artificial or non-caloric sweeteners, are intensely sweet synthetic substances, often used to replace sugars in food manufacturing and cooking because they are calorie-free.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Additifs alimentaires
  • Diététique
  • Sucrerie (Industrie de l'alimentation)
CONT

Les édulcorants non nutritifs contiennent peu ou pas de kilojoules.

OBS

acalorique : Qui n'apporte pas de calories (à un organisme).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Aditivos alimentarios
  • Dietética
  • Industria azucarera
DEF

Producto de alto poder edulcorante que proporciona cero calorías [...] se utiliza en las comidas como sustituto del azúcar de mesa y en productos [...] como yogures, postres, gaseosas, golosinas y productos horneados, entre otros.

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