Artificial Sweeteners

Sliced Bread

BBC

Health & Fitness

4.6 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Artificial sweeteners appeal to anyone with a sweet tooth looking to cut down on their sugar intake. They?re not only for use in our cups of tea or coffee, but they?re also in fizzy drinks, low calorie products, sweets and baked goods. But are they really a better alternative?

Greg is joined by a leading scientist from the World Health Organisation, as well as a Professor of Gastroenterology who has researched the impact of sweeteners to ?spill the tea? on this topic. Can using them as an alternative help us reduce our blood sugar? Are all kinds of sweetener safe? And what about their effects on us long term?

The information in this episode was correct at the time of recording.

As ever we?re looking for YOUR suggestions. If you?ve seen and advert, trend or wonder product promising to make you happier, healthier or greener, email us at [email protected] OR send a voice not to our WhatsApp number, 07543 306807.

PRODUCERS: KATE HOLDSWORTH AND GREG FOOT RESEARCHER: PHIL SANSOM

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1:00.0	Hello, I'm Greg Foote and welcome to the show that investigates the Wonder Products
1:03.9	promising to make you happier, healthier or greener. Each episode, I run one of your
1:08.7	suggested wonder products through the evidence mill to find out if it is indeed the best thing since sliced bread or marketing BS.
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