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SWEETENER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Anything that serves as an enticement
Synonyms:
bait; come-on; hook; lure; sweetener
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("sweetener" is a kind of...):
enticement; temptation (something that seduces or has the quality to seduce)
Derivation:
sweeten (make sweeter, more pleasant, or more agreeable)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Something added to foods to make them taste sweeter
Synonyms:
sweetener; sweetening
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("sweetener" is a kind of...):
flavorer; flavoring; flavourer; flavouring; seasoner; seasoning (something added to food primarily for the savor it imparts)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sweetener"):
aspartame (an artificial sweetener made from aspartic acid; used as a calorie-free sweetener)
honey (a sweet yellow liquid produced by bees)
saccharin (a crystalline substance 500 times sweeter than sugar; used as a calorie-free sweetener)
refined sugar; sugar (a white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative)
sirup; syrup (a thick sweet sticky liquid)
Derivation:
sweeten (make sweeter in taste)
Context examples:
To avoid extra calories, many pregnant women replace sugar-sweetened soft drinks and juices with beverages containing artificial sweeteners.
(Drinking diet beverages during pregnancy linked to child obesity, NIH)
We also observed that replacing these sugars with non-caloric artificial sweeteners leads to negative changes in fat and energy metabolism.
(Artificial Sweeteners Can Still Lead to Obesity, Diabetes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Thus, sweeteners may substitute sugar because they mimic its sweet taste but have a negligible impact on daily energy intake and are frequently sweeter than sucrose.
(Not enough scientific evidence linking noncaloric sweeteners with adverse effects on gut microbiota, University of Granada)
Other researchers found evidence in rodents that, by stimulating taste receptors, artificial sweeteners desensitized the animals’ digestive tracts, so that they felt less full after they ate and were more likely to overeat.
(Drinking diet beverages during pregnancy linked to child obesity, NIH)
Last year, a study claimed drinks with artificial sweeteners could increase a person’s risk of dementia or stroke.
(Artificial Sweeteners Can Still Lead to Obesity, Diabetes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
With respect to polyol sweeteners (such as isomaltose, maltitol, lactitol, and xylitol), which are poorly absorbed or even not absorbed at all, they may have prebiotic actions and can reach the large bowel and increase the numbers of bifidobacteria in animals and humans.
(Not enough scientific evidence linking noncaloric sweeteners with adverse effects on gut microbiota, University of Granada)
Before you scramble to dump out all those artificial sweeteners, researchers note this study doesn’t clearly say whether they are better or worse than sugar.
(Artificial Sweeteners Can Still Lead to Obesity, Diabetes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
In this sense, sweeteners based on amino acid derivatives don’t exert great changes on gut microbiota due to their low concentration and because those amino acids are absorbed by the duodenum and the ileum.
(Not enough scientific evidence linking noncaloric sweeteners with adverse effects on gut microbiota, University of Granada)
Researchers fed groups of rats diets high in sugar or artificial sweeteners including aspartame and acesulfame potassium.
(Artificial Sweeteners Can Still Lead to Obesity, Diabetes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
One of the main discoveries is that the only nonnutritive and noncaloric sweeteners that significantly alter microbiota are saccharin and sucralose, although their impact on human health is unknown and further research should be carried out in order to confirm said alteration.
(Not enough scientific evidence linking noncaloric sweeteners with adverse effects on gut microbiota, University of Granada)
