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