1. Aspartame Where it’s commonly found: Several sugar substitute products; in food labeled ‘diet’ or ‘sugar free’; drink mixes; low-calorie frozen desserts; chewing gum; Kool-Aid; Jello; and so on What it is: Artificial sweetener Why you should never eat it: Aspartame is a neurotoxin and carcinogen. It is known to erode intelligence, affect short-term memory, cause brain tumours, lymphoma, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, emotional disorders (e
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capital structure therefore Equivalent Annuity should be used in this case. The order of the projects would be 1. Strategic Acquisition 2. Eastward Expansion 3. Snack Foods 4. Southward Expansion 5. Inventory Control System 6. Artificial Sweeteners 7. New Plant 8. Expanded Plant 9. Automation and Conveyor System 10. Expand Truck Fleet 11. Effluent Treatment Program Since the Effluent Treatment Program is not subjected to NPV, we can say it as an investment of $4 million
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actual sugar. This sweetener has substituted sugar even in the norms of foods and beverages. Like such in sports drinks, breakfast bars, frozen goods, and sweets (Company, 1998). This product has great taste, and extremely strong chemical bonds which make it a great use for baking. Splenda was discovered in the year of 1976 by Tate and Lyle and researchers in carbohydrate chemistry at Queen Elizabeth College, University of London (Company, 1998). FDA has approved this sweetener in the United States
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Threats of Aspartame Article Review Aspartame is widely used through out the world. It is a product used to replace sugar in a diet. Accourding to Dr. Joseph Mercola’s October 2009 article “Artificial Sweeteners – More Dangerous than You Ever Imagined” on Mercola.com the product is very dangerous. I chose this topic as a way to prove myself right. I was hopping to find more information on why Aspartame is not bad but I was not able to. I chose this article in particular because of the in depth
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excess calories or weight gain. Unsurprisingly, the problems persist when trying to replace sugar with artificial sweeteners. Aspartame sound familiar to you? Chemical sweeteners, like aspartame, are used to sweeten things without sugar, such as diet sodas. The Harvard Medical School admits that the way our bodies respond to these sweeteners is complicated, and the use of artificial sweeteners can mean shunning more healthy options as they don’t contain sugar, and lead to an inability to associate
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Glycemic Index for Sweeteners The glycemic index for sweeteners is a function of three things: 1. The amount of carbohydrate present. 2. The type of carbohydrate present. 3. The presence of other substances (soluble fiber for example) that slow metabolism of carbohydrates. Glucose has a glycemic index (GI) of 100 and fructose is 25. Sucrose (Ordinary sugar) which is made up of a combination of these two has a GI of 65. The search for a low GI natural sugar based sweetener is somewhat futile
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vegetation to combat insect destruction (NPIC, 2009). Permethrin also has many other uses that the average consumer or user may be unaware of, they include in dog and cat flea collars, and head lice applications (NPIC, 2009) Saccharin is an artificial sweetener used in beverages such as diet sodas, and it can also be used as a sugar replacement in cookies and cakes. The use of saccharin had a huge push by many vendors when the fight against obesity and the urge for healthy living started to become
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income and lack of knowledge. Therefore majority of our unhealthy population are the ones who are in the poverty level. Many people think that just because it’s inexpensive, it does not mean it’s good for you. High Fructose Corn Syrup is an “artificial” sweetener. By definition it means; made by human skills. High fructose corn syrup was developed in the 1960’s and began being incorporated into the things we drink and slowly but surely replaced the natural sugar. Since it was produce much cheaper than
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Splenda For my topic I choose Splenda which was discovered in 1976 and approved in Canada in 1991. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Splenda as a non-nutritive sweetener in 1998 and as a general-purpose sweetener in 1999. It is now approved in more than 80 countries and is used worldwide in over 4,000 commercial products such as no-sugar added fruit, diet soft drinks, and reduced-sugar juices. Splenda is a mixture of dextrose, malt dextrin, and sucralose. Ten grams of
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It can be found in restaurants, local grocery stores and even in our homes. Aspartame, an artificial sweetener that is widely used in the products we consume daily and commonly known to be used in diet sodas. Aspartame quickly gained this popularity through its claims of being a healthier and less caloric alternative to regular added sugar. Now whether these claims can be trusted or not is where things start to become a bit skewed. On one hand, we have people arguing that aspartame is completely
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