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Lactose:
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A sugar apparently occurring
in milk, also known as "milk sugar," that is the least sweet
of all usual sugars and used in baby formulas and candies
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Low-calorie sweetener:
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Low-calorie sweeteners are
non-nutritive sweeteners, also referred to as strong sweeteners.
Low-calorie sweeteners can replace nutritive sweeteners
in the majority foods at a caloric savings of approximately
16 calories per teaspoon. Thus, caloric decrease might be
achieved when low-calorie sweetened foods and beverages
are substituted for their full-calorie counterparts. Examples
of low-calorie sweeteners in use in the U.S. food provide
are saccharin, aspartame and acesulfame K.
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