For people with diabetes mellitus pure sugar and food ingredients treated with pure sugar, like white sugar, brown sugar, honey, syrup, and other sweet foods are included in the type of foods to avoid for blood sugar always under control.
Thanks to technological developments in food production is now the diabetes can enjoy sweets without worrying about the calorie content ie with artificial sweeteners. Later this artificial sweetener is not only intended to control blood sugar but also maintain weight, reduce tooth decay as well as the main sweetening ingredient substitutions.
There are two classes of artificial sweeteners: sweeteners are very high levels of sweetness and sweeteners that are not so sweet as conventional sugar substitute. Aspartame, saccharin, and cyclamate into first class, second class entry sorbitol.
Selection of the use of a good alternative sweetener is usually based on their properties like sucrose. That is approaching the level of sweetness of sucrose, is colorless, odorless, has a pleasant taste, safe for consumption, and easily soluble.
Even so, the amount consumed is very limited and should not be excessive. The recommended limit for people with diabetes for each of the different artificial sweeteners. For processed foods, for example, the maximum dose for cyclamate is 2 ppm, whereas for saccharin 0.15 ppm. For drinks, cyclamate dose allowed is 0.06 ppm and 0.005 ppm saccharin.
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