When you’re looking for a sweet treat, you often have two options: eat something with real sugar or something with an artificial sweetener. This isn’t entirely the case, though, according to experts. ...

Dr. Tracey Brigman, nutrition specialist and professor at UGA, gives insight into artificial sweeteners.

Sugar alcohols and artificial sweeteners are both sugar substitutes that have fewer calories than regular sugar. Choosing sugar alcohols or artificial sweeteners over sugar may help with blood sugar ...

When it comes to sweeteners, we often use blanket terms like “real” or “fake.” However, that’s not the entire story. Whereas “real” sugar may refer to table sugar, brown sugar, honey or maple syrup, ...

Patients with certain types of cancers who consume sucralose, found in the artificial sweetener Splenda, respond worse to immunotherapy compared with those who don’t, researchers report July 30 in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dietitians share why they’re concern about the ingredients in sugar-free desserts (Getty/iStock) From gingerbread houses to ...

Pamela is a freelance food and travel writer based in Astoria, Queens. While she writes about most things edible and potable (and accessories dedicated to those topics,) her real areas of expertise ...

Scientists at Tufts University have discovered a way to produce a safe dupe for sucrose, a k a table sugar. Better yet, the sweet stuff has significantly fewer calories, minimal impact on blood sugar ...

Elena Mainetto, from Radboud University, Margaret Westwater, from the University of Oxford, and colleagues at the University of Cambridge explored whether they could change how much people enjoy ...