General Sweeteners
Sucralose is arguably the most common table top sweetener used all over the country, but how many hundreds of times sweeter is it than sugar?
What is a 600x Sweeter?
Artificial sweeteners, such as aspartame and sucralose are meant to taste sweet without these, which regular sugar has plenty of
What are Calories?
What is the primary source of pollution for Artificial Sweeteners?
What is Human Waste/ are Wastewater Plants?
Companies that want to sell a new food additive, such as a new sweetener, must first get approval from this federal agency.
What is the FDA?
What was the first discovered artificial sweetener?
What is Saccharine?
Both sugar and aspartame are often added as a sweetening ingredient during food production, how many times sweeter than sugar is Aspratame?
What is 200x Sweeter?
Research says high consumption of artificial sweeteners has been associated with this outcome, the opposite of what many dieters want?
What is weight gain?
hat is the name of sweetener most studies focus on as a pollutant?
What is it most commonly known as for an extra 50 points?
What is Sucralose?
(EC What is Splenda?)
n 1969 the FDA began discussions with what company about the necessary information needed to submit a petition on the usage of aspartame as an alternative added sweetener?
What is Searle? (G.D. Searle & Co.)
Which of the following is NOT an artificial sweetener?
Sucrose, Sucralose, Aspartame
What is Sucrose?
Following a joint research study conducted by several food regulating bodies Aspratame was given an acceptable daily intake of how many milligrams per kilogram of body weight?
What is 40mg of Aspartame per kilogram of body weight?
In the big French study, aspartame was linked to a higher risk of this serious event affecting the brain.
What is a stroke?
Aside from being a pollutant in itself, what can Sucralose also be used to indicate?
What are sewage spills, which could hurt the environment and humans alike?
Several products utilize, “zero calorie,” or, “no calorie” advertising to entice consumers, despite these products containing more than 0 calories. This is because the FDA allows any product under how many calories (per standard serving,) to use these claims?
What is under 5 calories per standard serving?
What were the three other pollutants listed in the writing that are filtered out of our waste? (100 pts. for each correct answer)
What are Carbon, Nitrogen, and Phosphorous?
All artificial sweeteners and food additives are given code names within the European Union, what alternative “name” did aspartame (or/and) sucralose receive?
What is E955? (Sucralose) and/or What is E951 (Aspartame)
Harvard Health’s article focuses on how artificial sweeteners might affect this organ?
What is the heart?
What makes Sucralose such a persistent pollutant and why is that persistence an issue?
What is the fact it is an organochlorine and is very hard to break down, which allows it to build up in organisms.
The FDA sets this, shortened to ADI, which is the amount of a substance considered safe to consume each day over a person’s lifetime.
What is the acceptable daily intake?
What are three government agencies that interact with Artificial Sweeteners?
What are the FDA, NIH, and EPA? (or any other agencies that can be PROVEN to interact with artificial sweeteners)
The name brand version of sucralose, called Splenda, is sold internationally by McNeil Nutritionals. What percentage of every packet contains genuine sucralose?
What is 1.1%?
Saccharin and sucralose made it harder for the body to handle this type of sugar in the blood.
What is glucose (blood sugar)?
What were 3 of the organisms listed in the studies and what was one effect from each of them?
Common Carp - DNA Damage, Apoptosis, Oxidative Damage
Zebrafish - Embryonic Disruption, Blood Oxidation Issues
Daphnia -Blood Oxidation Issues, Physiological Malformations
Gammarus - Oxidative Issues, Physiological Maladies
In December 1975, following numerous complaints about the safety of aspartame the FDA halted all market activity involving aspartame, in order to verify its safety. What was this called?
What is a “Stay” or what is “Stayed”
Aspartame is often blended with what other artificial sweetener, in order to make it taste closer to the sweetness of standard sugar?
What is acesulfame potassium?