Sugar Substitutes Q&A
Check out questions and answers from our experts about sugar alternatives and diabetes, including straight talk about the safety of sugar substitutes.
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 put some of the more popular options through their paces.
Baking with Sugar Substitutes
Sugar substitutes, sugar blends, plain old sugar -- there are so many choices for baking, what's a person with diabetes to do? We took the guesswork out of choosing a sugar substitute for baking by testing one cake recipe with five different sugar substitutes. Here's what we found.
Low-Sugar Dessert Recipes
We've chosen our favorite low-sugar dessert recipes. These tasty treats are classified as low-sugar snacks (3 grams of sugar or less) when made with sugar substitutes.








