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Published on: July 16, 2016
Does Consuming Sugar and Artificial Sweeteners Change Taste Preferences?
1Senior Consultant for Regional Health Education for the Southern California Permanente Medical Group. carole.a.bartolotto@kp.org.
Abstract:
Americans consume 22.3 teaspoons of added caloric sweeteners a day. Sweeteners range from 180 to 13,000 times sweeter than sugar. In summer 2014, 20 people from Kaiser Permanente California facilities cut out all added sugars and artificial sweeteners for 2 weeks: 95% of participants found that sweet foods and drinks tasted sweeter or too sweet, 75% found that other foods tasted sweeter, and 95% said moving forward they would use less or even no sugar. Additionally, 86.6% of participants stopped craving sugar after 6 days.
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