1. Substitute sugar is a kind of sweetener with lower caloric and we need only a few amount to sweeten the food taste.

2. Substitute sugar ingredients include:

Aspartame

• It is inappropriate to heat substitute sugar because it loses its sweet flavor easily.
• PKU (Phenylketonuria: Genetic metabolic defects is an amino acid may be, in patients with liver phenylalanine hydroxylase deficiency, so that the food can not be converted to phenylalanine, tyrosine, phenylalanine, resulting in aggregation in the brain, the transaminase role into phenylketonuria, thus affecting the patient's brain development, causing mental retardation and epilepsy, and patients with skin whitening, hair yellow, there are rat urine odor and other symptoms) patients are not allowed to use it.

Acesulfame K

• It is all right to cook it because it does not dissolve with heat.

Saccharin

• It does not dissolve with heat. It affects flavor and turns it bitter once we add too much in the food.
• Use substitute sugar wisely and carefully examine the ingredients before you buy it.

Erythritol

• It is a natural sweetener with 65% of sweetness of sucrose and providing 0.4 kcal per gram.
• It is easily absorbed and has less gastrointestinal side effects.