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You might have heard thatsweeteners aren’t good for you.
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Generally, they’re not the healthiest foods you might eat.
Scientists have created a new sweetener that may actually support your health.
For these results, researchers studied both low-calorie and extremely sweet substances from natural sources.
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They discovered a couple of different ones.
For starters, they took a look at galactooligosaccharides low-calorie sugars with a prebiotic activity.
However, the prebiotics weren’t sweet enough on their own to replace the taste of table sugar.
The fruit contains mogrosides: compounds that are 200 to 300 times sweeter than table sugar.
Eaten alone, these extracts may have flavors that taste funky.
However, enzymes can remove the extracts.
They used enzymes to modify the mogrosides, and also produced galactooligosaccharides to combine them for a brand-newlow-caloriesweetener.
Furthermore, in test tube experiments, the new sweetener increased the levels of multiple beneficial human gut microbes.
This new sweetener holds potential for future use.
Instead, she recommends consuming plenty of vegetables and other better-for-you foods."
