Sweeteners & Your Body

If you’ve ever said, “I was born with a sweet tooth,” you weren’t kidding. According to taste researchers and other experts, sweetness is one of our first flavor experiences – newborns clearly sense and enjoy sweet tastes.

That sweet taste usually comes from one of two types of sweeteners: sugars, also called nutritive sweeteners, which provide calories, and low-calorie sweeteners, which provide few or no calories. They’re also known as non-nutritive sweeteners, sugar substitutes and artificial sweeteners.