Hara: Professor Yan: Sugar-free drinks, are you really not fat?

In recent years, under the influence of the popularization of scientific concepts, many people have realized the harm of excessive consumption of sugar, such as obesity and aging

Sugar-free drinks were originally used for diabetes, fitness, obesity and other groups, but in fact, with the improvement of national health awareness, sugar-free drinks have also begun to be highly sought after in the general user group, and the industry has developed rapidly

What is a 0 Sugar Drink?

The "0 sugar" statement is actually not strict for the vast majority of products, strictly speaking, most of the 0 sugar products currently on the market are actually only 0 sucrose

The "sugar-free" on the market can be divided into two categories: one is that it does not contain sugar and does not use sweeteners; The other category is that it does not contain sugar, but uses sweeteners to produce sweetness

The so-called "0 sucrose" means that the production enterprise does not add sucrose in the food processing process, but does not mean that it does not contain other sugars or sugar

In fact, last year, some companies were punished for not explaining the difference between "0 sugar" and "0 sucrose" to mislead consumers, which also highlighted that many consumers' awareness of products such as "0 sugar" and "0 sucrose" was not in place

What is a sugar substitute (sweetener)?

The so-called sugar substitute, belongs to a type of food additives, mainly used to add sweetness to food, simple understanding is to replace white sugar, fructose, glucose and other edible sugar sweeteners

Sugar alcohols

Common ones are sorbitol, mannitol, lactitol, maltitol, xylitol, erythritol and the like

Sugar alcohols are characterized by lower sweetness than sucrose, and the calories generated are relatively low, producing 2kcal of calories

Highly sweetener

Highly sweeteners can also be divided into natural and synthetic two, commonly used synthetic such as acesulfame potassium, aspartame, sucralose and so on; There are also naturally derived steviol, monk glycosides, glycosides, etc

They are extremely sweet, ranging from 200 to thousands of times that of white sugar, and do not provide heat

Among them, steviol and erythritol are considered to be net red sugar substitutes, the most concerned by public consumers, unlike sucralose in artificial sugar substitutes, obviously high safety and good taste, but because of the word "chlorine", it feels toxic

For example, before a certain brand of milk tea launched a service

Can you lose weight after 0 sucrose?

This is a difficult question to answer in general, so don't expect

First, most sugar substitutes are very low or no calories, and at the same time have a high sweetness, and the energy intake is reduced

But whether you can lose weight, there are too many

Although sugar substitutes are a better choice than added sugar, do not pin your hopes on sugar substitutes, the use of sugar substitutes is only an auxiliary means, and controlling total energy intake and cooperating with exercise is the key
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If you use sugar-free Coke with fried chicken Coke every day, no one can stop you if you
want to grow meat.

Sugar substitute itself is not a diet pill, look at sugar substitutes reasonably, learn to get along with sugar substitutes, let it become a tool for you to regulate your diet, and do not become dependent on sugar substitutes
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The focus is still on controlling the diet, balancing nutrition, maintaining good exercise habits and daily routines
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The greater role of sugar substitutes may be to give you a hint of sweetness and make your weight loss path less painful
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