Many diet plans include decreasing your intake of calories, carbohydrates or sugars. Non-nutritive sugar substitutes or artificial sweeteners can help because they have no calories but taste like sugar. Aspartame is a sweetener that is 200 times sweeter than sugar. NutraSweet is a brand of aspartame. It is a sugar substitute in many diet food and beverage products, giving them a sweet taste but reducing the calories and carbohydrates.
Breakfast Syrup
Sugar-free breakfast syrup is a diet-friendly alternative to regular maple or pancake syrup. If you use large amounts of high-sugar breakfast syrup on your morning pancakes or waffles, you may be sabotaging your diet at the beginning of your day. Using sugar-free breakfast syrup can save hundreds of calories. Smucker's sugar-free breakfast syrup has NutraSweet and sugar alcohols to sweeten it. This syrup has only 20 calories for each 1/4 cup serving. This amount is about 90 percent fewer calories than the amount in regular syrup with sugar. Smucker's also makes sugar-free blueberry syrup with aspartame and sugar alcohols as sugar substitutes.
Jam
Jam or jelly can add a sweet fruit flavor to your meal or snack, but it can also add many empty calories. Regular jam made with sugar has about 50 calories for a single tablespoon serving. If you substitute sugar-free jam, you can save about 80 percent of those calories, because sugar-free jam has about 10 calories per tablespoon. Smucker's sugar-free seedless blackberry jam has Nutrasweet as its sole added sweetener. Smucker's also makes sugar-free strawberry preserves with NutraSweet. Using sugar-free jam or jelly instead of full sugar versions in sandwiches or recipes can save significant calories over time and can help you to lose weight or to control your blood sugar levels.
Pumpkin Pie
Bernard Foods makes Sans Sucre No Sugar Added Pumpkin Pie Mix with NutraSweet. You can use it instead of regular pumpkin pie mix to reduce the calories and carbohydrates of your desserts, including pies, tarts and pastries. The instructions for this mix are to add milk, mix and refrigerate. A serving size is 1/2 cup of prepared pie filling. In each serving, there are 4 g of sugars in the form of lactose, which is the carbohydrate in milk. This pumpkin pie mix has 70 calories per serving, which is about a third less than the 110 calories in a full-sugar pumpkin pie mix.
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