{"id":214426,"date":"2026-05-15T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T14:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/sweet-the-quest-for-a-sugar-alternative\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T11:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T15:00:10","slug":"sweet-the-quest-for-a-sugar-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/sweet-the-quest-for-a-sugar-alternative\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet: the quest for a sugar alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/sweet-the-quest-for-a-sugar-alternative-277770\">Sweet: the quest for a sugar alternative<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/sweet-the-quest-for-a-sugar-alternative-277770\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/sweet-the-quest-for-a-sugar-alternative-277770<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-15 10:46:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"theconversation.com\">theconversation.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sweetened trials highlight the complexities of replacing sugar in food and its influence on taste, texture, and health outcomes. <\/li>\n<li>Sweeteners, once niche, are now ubiquitous and central to debates on obesity, diabetes, and nutrition.<\/li>\n<li>Sweeteners range from &#8220;artificial&#8221; compounds like aspartame to natural options like stevia and monk fruit; each has trade-offs.<\/li>\n<li>The World Health Organization recently advised against sweeteners for weight control or disease prevention due to mixed evidence, contrasting with randomized trials that show promising outcomes.<\/li>\n<li>Mechanistic, observational, and randomized controlled trials provide differing insights into sweeteners&#8217; effects on the body, revealing gaps in fully understanding their impact on health.<\/li>\n<li>Randomized controlled trials suggest that replacing sugar with sweeteners lowers blood sugar and insulin spikes without increasing appetite or energy intake, and may aid in weight management.<\/li>\n<li>Concerns about sweeteners, like aspartame being &#8220;possibly carcinogenic,&#8221; lack strong human evidence at current consumption levels.<\/li>\n<li>Future research focuses on long-term effects, especially on specific populations like children and diabetics, and the development of better sweetener blends via advanced technologies like artificial intelligence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweet: the quest for a sugar alternative https:\/\/theconversation.com\/sweet-the-quest-for-a-sugar-alternative-277770 Publish Date: 2026-05-15 10:46:00 Source Domain: theconversation.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":214427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/722790\/original\/file-20260309-81-23kaaj.jpg?ixlib=rb-4.1.0&rect=0%2C518%2C6204%2C3102&q=45&auto=format&w=1356&h=668&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-214426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214428,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214426\/revisions\/214428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}