The most important advantages of sweeteners
Quality of life, enjoying your food
Modern lifestyles leave us less and less time to shop prudently and to take pains with preparing meals. As a result, many people eat an unbalanced diet. They eat too much fat, too much sugar, too much altogether. Three-quarters of people in Europe would like to reduce their daily intake of calories. They feel they need to improve their eating habits, yet many regard the enjoyment of sweet things as something they cannot do without. Hermesetas allows them to improve their diet without giving up sweet food and drinks.
Making life easier for people with diabetes
Since sweeteners have no effect on insulin or blood sugar levels and play no part in energy balance, Hermesetas helps people with diabetes stick to their diets without having to give up sweet food and drinks.
Sweeteners - the choice teeth would make
The damaging effect of sugar on tooth enamel is well known. With every sugary drink and with every meal - be it ever so small - that contains carbohydrates, the pH value in the mouth drops for about half an hour, thus providing ideal conditions for harmful plaque bacteria to get to work. Switching to sweeteners is therefore recommended to guard against caries and paradontitis. They allow you to enjoy sweet food and drinks without the risk of encouraging the build-up of plaque.
Safety
Sweeteners are classified as food additives and thus belong to a product group that is strictly controlled by international (JECFA, SCF, CODEX) and national (COT, MAFF) authorities.
These bodies impose very strict conditions on the safety and conditions of use of the product itself, its packaging and labelling.
In the UK all sweeteners are subject to the 'Sweeteners in Food Regulations 1995'.
