Calorie-free sugar for diabetics

For people with diabetes mellitus pure sugar and processed foods with refined sugar, like white sugar, brown sugar, honey, syrup, and other sweet foods, including the type of food that should be avoided so that the blood sugar is always under control.

Thanks to technological developments in food production is now the diabetes can enjoy sweets without worrying about the calorie content is by artificial sweeteners. Later, artificial sweeteners are not only aimed at controlling blood sugar but also maintain weight, reduce tooth decay as well as the main sweetening ingredient substitutions.

There are two classes of artificial sweeteners: sweeteners that very high levels of sweetness and sweeteners that are not so sweet as a sugar substitute conventional. Aspartame, saccharin, and cyclamate entered the first class, second class entered sorbitol.

Selection of the use of a good alternative sweetener is usually based on its properties that resemble sucrose. That is approaching the level of sweetness of sucrose, is colorless, odorless, has a pleasant taste, safe, and easily soluble.

Even so, the amount consumed is very limited and should not be exaggerated. The recommended limit for people with diabetes for each of the different artificial sweeteners. For processed foods, for example, the maximum dose for cyclamate is 2 ppm, whereas for saccharin 0.15 ppm. For drinks, cyclamate permitted dose was 0.06 ppm and 0.005 ppm saccharin.

One low-calorie sweetener product, Tropicana Slim, recently released its newest product that is Tropicana Slim Steleaf. This product was first used in Paraguay, Brazil and Japan.

"Various studies have stated that stevia can provide benefits for diabetics, namely regulation of blood sugar levels better," said Norma Sari Dewi, brand manager of Tropicana Slim. He added that this product may be a low-calorie sugar option, not only for diabetics but for anyone who wants a healthy lifestyle but still fun.