Nov. 14, 2022 – When Cherie Russell’s husband brought home a bottle of jarred marinara sauce from the grocery story with a label advertising less sugar, he thought he had made a healthy choice.
But when Russell, a food researcher at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia, looked more closely at the label, she saw that artificial sweetener replaced some of the sugar in the tomato sauce. And while she didn’t want to eat sugar in her pasta dinner later, she didn’t want to have artificial sweetener either.
Russell says she’s worried about how safe it is to consume too many sugar alternatives….
