What You Should Know About Sugar Substitutes

By Jill Melton, M.S., R.D.

Thanks to low-calorie sweeteners, it's a lot easier today to have diabetes and still satisfy your sweet tooth -- but it's also a little confusing. To answer your questions about cooking with sugar substitutes, our Test Kitchen shares how best to use some of the more popular options.

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Sugar Substitutes

With more than 10,000 reduced-calorie food products on the market, cookies, cakes, and soft drinks may fit your diabetes eating plan better than ever. And if that's not enough, you'll also find an array of sugar substitutes and sugar-substitute blends you can use in cooking and baking.

How big a role should these sugar substitutes play in your diet? What do they cost? Can you use them to bake a great cake?

While it's good to know you have sweet alternatives to sugar, figuring out how to use them can be complicated. That's where our Test Kitchen stepped in to help.

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bobanddoro says:

I just found your site. Please give information on Splenda. I just purchased a good sized bag. Thank......

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bobanddoro wrote:

I just found your site. Please give information on Splenda. I just purchased a good sized bag. Thanks, I'll be waiting...Doro

2/27/2010 03:15:22 AM Report Abuse

arthurdpotter wrote:

Seems to me that anons comment drectly refutes your findings regarding sugar substitutes, may be he or she should quote some factual info with the opinion.

2/9/2010 10:57:48 AM Report Abuse

anonymous wrote:

Stevia is the only safe, non-caloric, non-chemical sugar substitute there is. Everything else does so much harm to all of us

1/26/2010 11:46:50 AM Report Abuse

anonymous wrote:

I use NuNaturals More Fiber baking blend, it is the stevia baking blend. So far I only use 1/2 Nustevia baking blend and 1/2 sugar and cakes, brownies even homemade ice cream taste great. I plan to try using only the stevia baking blend next week.www.nunaturals.com

11/29/2009 10:49:24 PM Report Abuse

anonymous wrote:

I also would like recipes using stevia. I found one box of stevia that said it could be used for baking, the rest said nothing.

11/25/2009 03:10:52 PM Report Abuse