This sweetener tastes just like sugar — but has fewer calories and is better for teeth and diabetes

Sweet salvation? Scientists at Tufts University have discovered a way to produce a safe dupe for sucrose, AKA table sugar.
El Adelantado de Segovia

Zero-calorie sweeteners are losing their healthy halo, and a new natural sugar could soon disrupt what people put in coffee and desserts

We used to believe artificial sweeteners were the answer to making sugary treats healthier, but lately, some of the biggest ...
Science Daily

This new sugar tastes like the real thing without the usual downsides

Scientists at Tufts have found a way to turn common glucose into a rare sugar that tastes almost exactly like table sugar—but ...

Scientists May Have Finally Found the “Holy Grail” of Sugar Substitutes

Compared with common sugars such as glucose, fructose, and sucrose, tagatose exists only in tiny amounts in nature. It ...
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Does Sugar Ever Expire?

Understanding whether dry pantry staples like sugar expire or not can be tricky. Here's everything to know about sugar's ...
Earth.com

Scientists taught bacteria to make a low-calorie sugar

Engineers have developed a new way to produce tagatose, a low-calorie sugar, using engineered bacteria and cheap glucose ...
WMUR

Consumer Reports tests alternatives to regular table sugar

WARNINGS ABOUT EATING TOO MUCH SUGAR HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR YEARS, BUT MANY OF US FIND IT HARD TO SATISFY OUR SWEET TOOTH WITHOUT IT. CONSUMER REPORTS PUT SUGARS THAT CLAIM TO BE NATURAL AND POTENTIALLY ...
Consumer Reports

Are These Trendy Sugars Really as Good as They Seem?

In the baking section of the supermarket, at your local coffee shop, or on packaged food ingredient labels, you’ll see coconut, turbinado, agave, and a variety of other sugars alongside regular white ...