But several studies over the past few years have suggested that the sweeteners may not necessarily be good for your health. On Thursday, after assessing the popular artificial sweetener aspartame ...

Calvo, a health journalist with Consumer Reports, said sugar substitutes are now in a variety of everyday foods— sucralose in ...

You may think if you cut sugar from your diet, you'll be healthier. But if you replace those food and drinks with sugar-free ...

Some natural sugars are touted as being healthier alternatives, but does swapping honey for table sugar really make a ...

Sweeteners such as saccharin ... One group were asked to take the daily safe level of saccharin, and the other group the daily safe level of stevia for 7 days. Each was also asked to give a ...

The FDA, however, has approved six artificial sweeteners and considers them “generally recognized as safe” or GRAS. Those FDA-approved sugar substitutes include sucralose, saccharin ...

Consumer Reports explored why health experts are concerned about the sugar substitutes appearing in unexpected foods. Artificial sweeteners are common in diet sodas, but they are now appearing in ...

Trisha Calvo, a health journalist with Consumer Reports, says sugar substitutes are now in a variety of everyday ...

This non-nutritive artificial sweetener is made in the laboratory, and despite being recognized as safe by the FDA, many people are skeptical about its potential long-term effects. Outdated animal ...

“We don’t have good evidence that sweeteners provide the weight-loss benefits people think they do,” says Jotham Suez, PhD, an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public ...