The zero-sugar soda, reduced-sugar mooncakes, low-sugar bread... With the improvement of the living environment, sugar-free food is favored by the public, and food businesses have also taken this to play the banner of "sugar-free and healthier. Is sugar-free food really healthy? The reporter learned that many sugar-free foods are actually replaced by sugar instead of sucrose, and xylitol, maltitol and other sugar substitutes are not easily absorbed by the body, consumers need to treat sugar-free foods rationally. How much.

Ms. Li, a citizen of Jianye District, is a sugar-free advocate. Food is based on "sugar-free": sugar-free yogurt, zero-sugar drinks, sugar-free cakes, etc. "My 10-year-old son likes to eat sweets, but I can't eat more sweets, so I choose sugar-free food first when I buy food." Ms. Li told reporters that she attaches great importance to her children's diet. "There are not many sugar-free foods in physical supermarkets, so I use my mobile phone to study online sugar-free foods almost every day."

Jiangbei Mr. Wang, who is in his 60 s, suffers from diabetes and likes sweets but cannot eat them. Sugar-free food seems to be a good choice for him. "Sugar-free oatmeal and sugar-free soya-bean milk are all necessary at home. Now you can eat sugar-free moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival." Mr. Wang bought two boxes of sugar alcohol moon cakes before the Mid-Autumn Festival this year. "I eat one in two days, but I dare not eat more."

The reporter noticed that this year's Mid-Autumn Festival, many businesses aimed at the sugar-free and low-sugar moon cake market and launched sugar alcohol moon cakes. Sugar alcohol bean paste, sugar alcohol lotus seed paste, sugar alcohol pumpkin, sugar alcohol black sesame ...... Suzhou Daoxiang Village this year launched a special sugar alcohol jubilee moon cake gift box, known as "sugar people special". Unlike other mooncakes, sugar alcohol mooncakes use sugar alcohols such as maltitol and xylitol instead of white sugar.

In the ingredient list of sugar alcohol pumpkin moon cakes in this moon cake in Daoxiang Village, the ingredients include sugar alcohol pumpkin paste, wheat flour, sucrose-free syrup 7%, sucrose-free high fiber syrup 2%, edible vegetable oil, fresh eggs, food additives, etc. Among them, sugar alcohol pumpkin paste ingredients for fresh pumpkin, white kidney beans, edible vegetable oil, food additives containing maltitol. Such a box of sugar alcohol moon cakes is packed in 12 and sold for 168 yuan.

The food of a food store on an online platform is sugar-free food. Xylitol moon cakes, including xylitol snow skin moon cakes, were introduced this year. Customer service told reporters that the moon cake does not add sucrose, diabetics can eat. There are 6 xylitol snow moon cakes in a box, including matcha, cranberry, tiramisu and orange, which are sold in 108 yuan.

From beverages to moon cakes, more and more food businesses are introducing sugar-free foods such as "sugar-free" and "0 sugar. Sugar-free foods generally refer to sweet foods that do not contain sucrose (cane sugar and beet sugar), glucose, maltose, fructose, etc., but sugar-free foods can contain sugar alcohols (including xylitol, sorbitol, maltitol, mannitol) and other substitutes.

Is sugar-free food and low-sugar food really useful to everyone? The reporter learned from Nanjing Yuhuatai District Market Supervision and Administration Bureau that sweeteners such as maltitol are substances that give food sweetness and belong to a class of food additives.

"Food manufacturers must strictly abide by relevant standards and regulations, and reduce the use of food additives including sweeteners in food as much as possible under the premise of achieving the expected results, and must not exceed the scope or limit the use." The relevant staff of the Market Supervision and Administration Bureau of Yuhuatai District, Nanjing City said that consumers should treat sugar-free food rationally.