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Salt Substitutes

  • most americans consume more sodium than recommended.
  • results in high blood pressure and risk for heart disease
  • Potassium chloride and spices help season food with lower sodium levels

Quiz Questions

1. What are food analogs?

2. What is the purpose of an artificial sweetener?

Works Cited

  • https://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi&ei=6l1QU-3MBMG5sQSWloJg&ved=0CAQQqi4oAg
  • lamoehr.weebly.com/.../5/2/.../food_analogs-_substitute_ingredients.pptx‎

Food Analogs...

Sweeteners

  • creates lower calorie foods that taste like the higher calorie snacks.
  • They add sweetness without adding as many calories as sugar
  • Nonnutritive sweeteners provide no calories
  • nutritive sweeteners add calories

Types

  • sweeteners
  • fat replacers
  • salt substitutes

Function, Types, Advantages, and Disadvantages

Chelsey Hudson, Dylan Morton, Taneshia Perry, Kay Gaint

Disadvantages

  • drawbacks to the current food supply by some are not “natural”
  • may tempt some people to avoid eating a variety of foods. such as Olestra: A sucrose polyester designed to act, feel, and hold onto flavor compounds like fat without providing any calories. fat free pringles are a good example.

Advantages

  • low-fat and reduced-calorie options
  • keep prices of food products reasonable.
  • allows more food options for people with heart disease, food allergies, and diabetes. such as sugar free gum or lowfat cake, replacement foods.

Main Functions

  • saving money.
  • altering the nutritive value of foods.
  • improving food performance.
  • offering an alternative option for restricted diets.

Fat replacers & substitutes

  • americans consume more fat than recommended.
  • lower calorie replacers mimic mouth feel of fat and flaky texture in baked goods
  • there are starch-based, protein-based and manfactured fat replacers

Sweeteners (examples)

  • Saccharin- 2000 times sweeter than sugar.
  • aspartame- 200 times sweeter than sugar.
  • acesulfame K- 130 times sweeter than sugar.
  • stevioside- 300 times sweeter than sugar
  • sucralose- 600 times sweeter than sugar
  • neotame- 7000-13000 times sweeter than sugar
  • Brazzein- 2000 times sweeter than sugar
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