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Hi Mammoth Man , here is an article I found about sweeteners. From Nurticise:
All About Sugar
Whether you like it raw or refined, here's where your favorite sugar comes from.
(Nutricise) — Sugar is everywhere. It's in our chocolate bars, cereals, milk, beets and nectarines in one form or the other. But is one type of sugar better than another? Apparently not.
"Sugar is sugar is sugar," says Anne Dubner, R.D., a spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association. "Whether you get sugar from fruit or from the table, your body handles it the same way.”
Although Dubner says that all sugars have about 16 calories and four grams of carbohydrates per teaspoon, sugars are taken from a variety of places. Here's your guide to where the most common sugars come from.
Raw. Raw sugar, which is light tan in color, comes from processing sugar cane. It is a coarse, granulated solid sugar that's left over when sugar cane juice evaporates. The calorie and carbohydrate content is the same as table sugar, which has 15 calories per teaspoon.
Refined sugar. Also known as table sugar or sucrose, this common sugar is found in the stalks of sugar cane – or from the beet root of a sugar beet – in the form of a sugar-rich juice, which is extracted and then processed into dried sugar crystals.
Fruit sugar. Also known as fructose, fruit sugars are found naturally in all fruits, but they're also added to foods in the form of high fructose corn syrup. Fructose is 1 1/2 times sweeter than table sugar, and one teaspoon contains 12 calories.
Brown sugar. This sugar is merely sugar crystals flavored with molasses. Nutritionally, it has 16 calories per teaspoon.
Honey. Honey is formed from nectar by bees. Although it has a few more calories (21 per teaspoon) than table sugar, it tastes sweeter so you tend to use less of it. "Although you're not saving calories by eating honey, you are getting more flavor," Dubner says.
Milk sugar. Milk sugar—called lactose—is found naturally in milk and has about 15 calories per teaspoon.
Sugar alcohols. Don't let the name fool you. Sugar alcohols don't contain ethynol, which is found in alcohol, so they won't get you drunk. Common names for sugar alcohols include sorbitol, mannitol and xylitol and they can be found in a lot of sugar-free candies, cookies, chewing gum, jams and jellies. "They add sweetness and texture and help foods stay moist," says Dubner. "Even though they're a sugar, it's still legal to call the product sugar-free because these sugars require very little or no insulin to be metabolized." In other words, your body doesn't use these calories like most sugars – they just pass through your system. The downside of this is that if you eat too many of them, they can have a laxative effect.
Annie-Pie 
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