Sweet salvation? Scientists at Tufts University have discovered a way to produce a safe dupe for sucrose, AKA table sugar.

Compared with common sugars such as glucose, fructose, and sucrose, tagatose exists only in tiny amounts in nature. It ...

Artificial sweeteners were supposed to make sugary foods and beverages healthier, but today, some of the most popular ...

Scientists at Tufts have found a way to turn common glucose into a rare sugar that tastes almost exactly like table sugar—but ...

Unlike sucrose, D-tagatose delivers nearly the same sensory experience. It is about 92% as sweet as table sugar, yet provides ...

Scientists are closing in on something food companies have chased for decades: a sugar that tastes like the real thing, ...

A newly developed sugar alternative tastes 92% like real sugar, say scientists, but with 60% fewer calories and minimal blood ...

As per initial findings, tagatose tastes 92% like sugar and has about one third of the calories that sugar contains. It doesn ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., cheered Tyson Foods Company’s decision to drop high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) from its branded products by the end of this year. However, ...

From saccharin in the 19th century to stevia and monk fruit in the 21st, researchers and the food industry have long sought a ...

We evolved to like energy-dense foods such as honey, but modern diets tend to include too much sugar. Here’s how to make sure you eat the right amount, at the right time ...