Food manufacturers say they are responding to increased parent demand for sugar-free and low-sugar products and abiding by federal guidelines.
Rebekah Miller has four girls under 10. She's not a "crunchy mom," she says, eagle-eyeing everything to make sure it's rigorously organic. But lately, she's become worried about the blackberry-tea-flavored "drink enhancers" her daughters squirt into their huge water bottles each day.
It's a dilemma faced by more and more parents as they heed the message to avoid added sugar but end up reaching instead for products crammed with artificial sweeteners. These snacks and drinks often have a healthful veneer, advertising that they are "low-sugar" or have "half the sugar" of previous formulas. The only indication that they contain sugar alcohols or chemical sweeteners may be the long list of ingredients on the back.
Even a new children's drink co-founded by Michelle Obama - the former first lady who made childhood health a hallmark of her time in the White House - relies on sugar substitutes. PLEZi, which is advertised as low sugar and comes in flavors like Sour Apple and Blueberry Blast, is sweetened with stevia leaf and monk fruit.
"Decades of research support the safety and efficacy of Splenda in healthy diets," said Ted Gelov, chief executive of Splenda. He said Splenda, the top-selling sweetener brand, is considered safe by the FDA and that "over the years, numerous studies have proven that along with exercise and a healthy diet, reduced-calorie sweeteners are a critical tool that can help consumers manage body weight and reduce the risk of non-communicable diseases.
"We must solve for sugar!" is the tagline for a new sugar alternative called RxSugar, made from allulose, a sweetener produced from corn and newly recognized as safe by the FDA. It is 90 percent lower in calories than table sugar because it largely isn't digested by the body. Kass said the goal with PLEZi products is to have less sugar, less sweetness and more nutrients, but that they have to taste good, "because otherwise, kids will just keep choosing soda and other sugary drinks."
Aspartame is in about 95 percent of carbonated soft drinks that have a sweetener and about 90 percent of ready-to-drink teas. A WHO panel said it may increase the risk of cancer, especially liver cancer, but the agency did not scale back its recommendations for how much is safe to consume each day. A number of studies have linked other sugar substitutes with cancer, diabetes in young adults and other illnesses, although they have often been inconclusive or contradictory.
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