This diabetic sweetner is made of saccharin, one of the affordable low-calorie sweeteners available. It's popular as a zero-calorie substitute for sugar in cooking. It's also used as a sweetener in low-calorie processed foods such as fruit juices, candies, jams, jellies, and cookies.

Ingredients: Dextrose, (Non-nutritive sweetners) Sodium Cyclamate, Sodium Saccharine

Benefits and Disadvantages of Saccharin

Weight loss aid. Using this zero-calorie sweetener instead of natural sugar may help to prevent obesity. By eating foods with lower-calorie saccharin instead of foods with higher-calorie sugars, you can control the number of calories you take in.

Possible blood sugar regulation. The human body can't metabolize saccharin. Therefore, your blood sugar won't spike after consuming it. This characteristic makes saccharin seem ideal for people with diabetes, but research on the actual effects of saccharin on blood sugar lack conclusive evidence so far.

Effects of Saccharin in Children

About 15% of kids over 2 years old eat non-nutritive sweeteners, including saccharin. Despite negative associations, allowing children to eat non-nutritive sweeteners is not connected with health risks. Saccharin might even have the same long-term benefits in children as it does in adults, helping control body weight and blood sugar levels.

Unlike sugar, saccharin doesn't seem to increase cravings for sweet foods. Although more research is still needed, artificial sweeteners don't seem to release dopamine, endorphins, and other chemicals that could trigger addiction in children in the same way that table sugar does.‌

However, as can happen with other foods and additives, eating saccharin too early in life can prevent children from gaining oral tolerance to it. This can result in a higher risk of developing allergies to this non-nutritive sweetener.

Ask your pediatrician whether it's OK for your toddler to have saccharin.

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