Sweeteners: The answer to our sugar cravings?
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 976 Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Sheila Dillon asks whether sweeteners could be the way for us to cut down sugar but to keep enjoying sweet treats. Presented by Sheila Dillon and produced in Bristol by Emma Weatherill.
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| 0:36.1 | you can always discover more with a podcast on BBC Sounds. In recent months, many of us have been doing a lot of this. Now at 743 we are talking about sugar. We have this problem now in every country. We have this problem in India. We have this problem in Pakistan. We have this problem through the entire Pacific rim. |
| 1:01.0 | If this increase in pre-diabilities and diabetes isn't tackled now, it will wreck the health |
| 1:07.0 | service, it will destroy the health service. |
| 1:10.0 | Talking and thinking about sugar, prompted by radio bulletins or newspaper headlines. |
| 1:16.0 | It's dominated recent debates over the health of the nation. |
| 1:19.9 | Even Prime Time Television has asked if the white stuff is now the biggest problem in our diets. |
| 1:26.0 | Which is worse than fat or sugar? |
| 1:29.0 | It's the hottest question in nutrition right now, with sugar in particular being targeted as public enemy |
| 1:35.1 | number one. |
| 1:36.1 | And so in this program we're going to focus on an ingredient that many see as the solution. |
| 1:41.8 | A tool of the food industry that's the focus now of intense research |
| 1:46.2 | and innovation. Artificial Sweeteners. We'll be hearing the latest on sweeteners from industry experts and carrying out some baking experiments. |
| 1:57.0 | It feels a little bit sort of rubbery in texture which is quite interesting so we'll see what they're like when they're baked. |
| 2:03.5 | If sugar really is the problem, the simple solution would be to adjust the nation's |
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