There's WHAT In My Canned Peaches? Del Monte Consumer Affairs Confirms It

I recently picked up some single-serving canned fruits at my local grocery store, which I thought would make a tasty addition to my lunch.

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No other sugar substitute has ever come close to the popularity of the Big Three. But now, a number of natural sweeteners may give those familiar packets a run for their money.

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In the grand tradition of nutritional scapegoating, high fructose corn syrup has stepped into the spotlight as dietary enemy number one. It's an easy target. What's the real story?

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Please remember that the parents first demanded this, then the Education Ministry went along with their demands, and now the Health Ministry makes it official policy, no more aspartame, splenda, and saccharin for these lucky children. Perhaps Health Canada, the Canadian FDA equi …

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Please take the time to write your own letter about aspartame and any other FDA issue that concerns you, to Dr. Torti; if you have connections to your state legislators, help us get a Resolution introduced asking FDA to take it off the market.

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Excerpt: Ever since cyclamates (artificial sweeteners) were taken off the U.S. market in the 1970s, the history of sugar substitutes has hardly been a sweet one. For some substitutes the issue is a lingering concern about safety; for others it is poor performance in the kitchen.

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The secret to health is not in a pill.....or in an add campaign for health.

Hundreds of thousands of people wake up each day to treck to the gym in an effort to sculpt their phsiques similar to that of the ones they see on covers of fitness magazines and the only thing guiding them to get their dream bodies are biased information from the creators of pro …

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Excerpt: There is a new sweetener on the horizon that may soon get FDA approval for use as an ingredient in food and beverage products here in the United States. Stevia is a shrub-like plant native to South America and part of the chrysanthemum family.

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Mike Davidson on artificial sweeteners.

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People who want to avoid genetically engineered sugar this year should think twice about one of the alternatives.

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In a series of experiments, scientists at Purdue University compared weight gain and eating habits in rats whose diets were supplemented with sweetened food containing either zero-calorie saccharin or sugar.

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As never before, they pervade the American diet -- in pink, yellow and blue packets on diner counters, in sugar-free cookies and diet juices, in sodas and smoothies and low-calorie yogurt and boxes of powder for baking. And, as ever, many Americans view them with suspicion.

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Food critic Bill Pitcher wants see some sweet new SPLENDA recipes, so he's turning to you to make it happen.

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It's also unclear whether switching to artificial sweeteners helps you lose weight, though a glance at our collective potbelly suggests that it doesn't. Some researchers think artificial sweeteners may actually interfere with our efforts to diet.

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