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In recent years, along with “body anxiety” and “appearance anxiety”, sugar-free drinks have also become popular. For people who can’t control their mouths and are afraid of gaining weight, the charm of sugar-free drinks is that they can not only satisfy their mouth addiction, but also reduce a lot of “guilt”. There are also many beauty lovers who choose sugar-free beverages in order to “control sugar”. In their opinion, “quitting sugar” can slow down skin aging.
So, are diet drinks really that “perfect”? Is it really suitable for diabetics to drink?
Experiment:
Only one with 0 sugar
March 10, The reporter purchased 6 bottles of beverages marked “sugar-free” from the supermarket, including Yuanqi Forest sparkling water, sugar-free iced black tea, sugar-free Sprite, sugar-free Coca-Cola bottles, sugar-free Coca-Cola cans (Xinghe Walk), and sugar-free Pepsi cans. In the laboratory of the Professor’s College, School of Food and Bioengineering, Xihua University, we conducted a sugar content detection experiment on these beverages.
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The experiment is to use a sugar content meter to detect the total sugar content of these beverages. We drop the purchased beverages into the sugar content meter in turn, and the display shows the percentage of the total sugar content of the sample.
The experimental results show that The percentage of total sugar content of the tested vitality forest sparkling water is 4%, iced black tea 3.4%, Sprite 2%, Coca-Cola canned Galaxy Walk 1%, Pepsi cans are 0.8%, and only Coca-Cola bottles have zero sugar.
Use a sugar meter to measure the total sugar content of beverages Percentage
Introduced by Che Zhenming, a professor at the School of Food and Bioengineering, Xihua University, scientifically speaking, carbohydrates are called sugars. A class of organic compounds. “The sugar that consumers call in our daily life and in the market is only a type of sugar with sweet taste, and it is also one of the very few sugars that has a sweet taste in taste.”
< p>Che Zhenming said: “The ‘sugar-free drinks’ on the market are those without sweetened sugar, which is not the same concept as the real ‘sugar-free’.”Many diet drinks contain carbohydrates and caramel colorings, which are converted into sugars when they enter the body. The total sugar content tested by the experiment is also the scientific concept of sugar, so a beverage with a sugar content of 0 can be called a true sugar-free beverage.
Answer:
Are diet drinks suitable for diabetics?
Che Zhenming said that sugar-free drinks are suitable for diabetics. There is no problem in itself. Scientifically defined sugar-free, therefore, may be misleading to consumers.
Che Zhenming introduced that high-sugar foods generally refer to extracting a large amount of energy. Now, in view of the general improvement of people’s living standards, the diet structure has undergone fundamental changes. That is, there is no shortage of carbohydrates in the body. “From a health point of view, from the point of view of losing weight and even affecting blood sugar and blood lipids and affecting physiological health, we advocate eating low-sugar foods as much as possible, and try not to consume too much sugar on the premise of meeting the needs of life.”
But there is no need to avoid sugary drinks. Che Zhenming reminded that formulated beverages should not be regarded as beverages that must be drunk every day. Long-term drinking in large quantities is not beneficial. But we don’t have to be too afraid. “Occasional drinking, including non-sugar-free drinks, even drinks with a higher sugar content, will not have a great impact on health.”
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