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.

Next: The Science of Sugar

What You Should Know About Sugar Substitutes

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.

Sugar Substitutes

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