A nutritive sweetener is a caloric value of 2% or more of the calorific value of sucrose when the sweetness of a sweetener is the same as that of sucrose. Non-nutritive sweeteners refer to calories below 2% of the caloric value of sucrose.
Natural non-nutritive sweeteners are gaining more and more attention and are the development trend of sweeteners. WHO pointed out that diabetes patients have reached more than 50 million, and more than one-quarter of Americans require low-calorie foods. Among the sucrose substitutes, the United States mainly uses aspartame, which is more than 90%. Japan is mainly stevioside, and Europeans are more interested in AK sugar (Acesulfame). These three non-nutritive sweeteners are available in China.
From the market demand and research on sweeteners, there are two main trends in the development of sweeteners:
High sweetness sweetener
High-intensity sweeteners have the advantages of high sweetness, low calories, difficulty in caries, high safety, etc., and such sweeteners are mostly non-sugar substances, which are not controlled by insulin during metabolism and do not cause obesity. And elevated blood pressure, suitable for diabetic, obese patients as a sweet substitute.
