The sweetness is 600 times that of sugar. It is not recommended to give children to children before the age of 3 years.

Humans are born with sweetness, sugar can bring us energy and happiness. However, too much sugar will bring various health problems, especially for children, which will increase the risk of obesity and dental caries, and form a sweet taste.

With our deep understanding of the terrible consequences of sugar, the determination to control sugar is also increasing day by day, especially in controlling the baby to eat sugar.

The merchants also smelled the changes in the wind direction, and various sugar -free foods began to appear in the supermarket.

These sugar -free foods are claimed to be healthier, and their prices are usually not cheap. But after looking at the ingredient table carefully, I found that there are a lot of bending around. Make people deeply doubt -they are really healthier, suitable for baby food? Today we invite nutritionists to take a look.

Sugar -free food bought in the supermarket

And drink, is it really sugar?

First of all, show you the requirements of our country on sugar -free food:

According to the national standard of food safety in GB28050-2011, the sugar content in food ≤ 0.5 g / 100 g (solid) or 100ml (liquid) can be called none or non-sugar-containing food.

Among them, sugar -free foods require strictly controlled sugar not only the white sugar and sucrose we are familiar with, but also all the sugar in the following list:

These are the ingredients should not appear in the sugar -free food ingredients:

Moistosus, fructose, crystalline fructose, glucose, white sugar, cotton sugar, rock sugar, brown sugar, brown sugar, sucrose, honey, lactose, maltose, maltose, corn syrup, fructose syrup, concentrated fruit juice, jam, etc.

Therefore, 0 adding, sucrose -free, and low -sugar foods are not necessarily sugar -free foods. Do not mix it.

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The real sugar -free foods on the market are mainly divided into two categories: no sugar and sugar -free sugar are added without adding sugar.

▪️ Do not add sugar at all:

There is no additional sugar, nor does it add sugar.

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▪️ Sugar -free add sugar:

Such foods meet the national sugar -free food standards, and do not add any additional sugar, but it will use sugar (sweetener) to increase the sweetness of food and make it easier to be accepted by everyone.

Usually in the ingredient table, we usually see the following additives:

*** Glycol alcohol: xylitol, red moss, maltol, sorbitol, etc.;

Natural glycoside: sweet chrysantheonin, Luohan 天, etc.;

Artificial sweetener: Sodium Sodium, Asba Sweet, Sirinerose, Ansai Mi, Sweetin, etc.;

Many parents are also inclined to choose such foods, because the sugar sounds healthier, and the taste is better, and it is easy to be accepted by the baby.

But the facts may not be that simple.

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Age sugar is really healthier

Is it more suitable for children to eat?

1. Compared with sugar, sugar can better control heat and reduce the risk of dental caries

Natural glycoside, artificial sweetener and other substitutes have very low calories, but the sweetness is very high. With a little bit, it feels sweet and sweet. When adding in food, the amount is very small, and the calories are almost 0. Therefore, compared with sugar, sugar can better reduce calorie intake and reduce the risk of obesity.

Compared with sugar, contemporary sugar will also be lower risk of dental caries. After the bacteria in the mouth are exposed to sugar, they will slowly absorb and use sugar to produce acid, destroy their teeth, causing tooth decay.

And sugar and bacteria do not react. Compared with sugar, sugar does not harm the teeth and cause dental caries.

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2. Sugar can increase the child's desire for sweetness, and want to consume more foods

We control our children to eat sugar, and on the one hand, we are afraid of children to form a sweet taste.

The sweetness of sugar replacement is the sweetness of sugar. However, we will find some sugar, especially artificial synthetic sweeteners. Their sweetness is hundreds of times that of sucrose.

Some studies have found that sugar can increase children's intake of sugary foods and beverages by affecting taste preferences.

Children's taste sensor is located in the tongue taste buds. After eating sugar, the sweetness feeling of the tongue flavor buds will be activated, which will stimulate the brain to produce a pleasure, further adjust the glucose intake, and tempt us to eat more sweetness, form a taste of sweetness and sweetness, Essence

In the past, we have always thought that only sugar can produce such stimuli, but now research has found that sugar can also stimulate the corresponding feeling, that is to say, sugar also has the risk of increasing children to eat sweetness.

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Other experiments have found that people who eat sugar generations will want to consume more food and even gain weight.

It can only be said that sugar can deceive our mouths, but they can't lie to their brains and bodies. They can't accept a loneliness, so the satisfaction is reduced, and naturally want to get more.

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Therefore, there have been various controversy whether sugar is healthier.

The age of children to eat sugar should not be changed by sugar generation sugar

Basically, eating sugar is just healthier than eating sugar, but it is not sweet and healthy than not eating. It is best to choose sugar on behalf of special groups such as infants and children.

Regarding the age of eating sugar and sugar substitutes, WHO announced in 2019 to release sugar restrictions: prohibit free sugar and sugar (except nutritional supplements) in children's food in 6 to 36 months.

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The appearance of sugar replacement does not mean that you can eat sugar for your child early, nor can it mean that you can eat sweetly.

For babies 3 years old, I still recommend that you do not give them to eat them, and let your children eat natural food. After the age of 3, the baby really wants to eat natural sugar that is similar to the sweetness of sucrose, such as moss, glycol, isophytis, and must also control the amount of eating.

Eating habits are a process that affects the human body for a long time. Whether it is sugar or sugar, we need to control the dependence of sweetness. Do not let children add sweets.

Finally, we helped everyone prepare a sugar list for everyone to make everyone better choose:

You can rest assured to eat good sugar:

Polyetta, hybrid galactose (in narrowing, they do not belong to sugar, it is a probiotic element)

It is not recommended to eat sugar within 3 years old:

Free sugar: glucose, fructose, crystalline fructose, sucrose (white sugar, cotton sugar, rock sugar, brown sugar, brown sugar), maltose, seaweed sugar, honey, juice, lactose, malt syrup, corn syrup, fructose syrup, transformed syrup Wait

代糖：麦芽糖醇、山梨糖醇、赤藓糖醇、木糖醇、乳糖醇、甜菊糖苷、罗汉果甜苷、糖精钠、阿斯巴甜、三氯蔗糖、安赛蜜、甜蜜素等

After 3 years of age, you can eat a small amount of sugar and sugar, the following sweetness is lower:

Eryl glycol, isophardosol

Note: In this table, eaten sugar is not suitable for infant foods with special functions such as nutritional supplements

references

[1] https://www.todaysrdh.com/does-xylitol-eoride-in-the-fight-abooth-decay/

[2]https://www.aapd.org/media/policies_guidelines/p_xylitol.pdf [3]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4232036/

[4] https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/144/5/e20192765/38183/The-user- -Onnutrics-in-Children?autology

[5] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/027153179600036xx

Experts in this article

Lan Xiaofang

Cooperative expert

Master of Food Processing and Safety of Food Processing and Safety of China Agricultural University

Liu Suiqian

Review expert

Clinical Nutritionist at Beijing Human Mujia Hospital

Master of Clinical Nutrition of the University of Sydney

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Planning: Lanlan

Producer: High, A Tongmu

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