> Your other responses seem to suggest you just have something against sweet things (even when you seem to acknowledge there are other factors at play like acidity and tooth decay)
We are talking about school lunches here. Sweet meals are bad (whether sugar or artificially sweetened) as it trains children's palate and shapes lifelong preference for sweet food. Hence I support banning artificial sweeteners as California plans to do.
When it comes to sweetened drinks, switching from sugary to artificially sweetened is not empirically shown as beneficial. This is the hurdle that proponents of public health interventions to replace sugar with aritificial sweeteners need to overcome.
> Did they try every possible "artificial sweeteners"?
The study which I linked in another reply looked at various commercially available artificial sweeteners and some combinations. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani14203032
This is necessary because not every species' taste receptors respond to every type of sweetener, e.g. rats do not respond to NHDC.
> These aren't like the same substance tweaked a bit where you're in a endless ratrace with the chemists.
Well it depends on who has the burden of proof that a certain food additive is safe and does not cause undesired long term effects, especially in children.
We are talking about school lunches here. Sweet meals are bad (whether sugar or artificially sweetened) as it trains children's palate and shapes lifelong preference for sweet food. Hence I support banning artificial sweeteners as California plans to do.
When it comes to sweetened drinks, switching from sugary to artificially sweetened is not empirically shown as beneficial. This is the hurdle that proponents of public health interventions to replace sugar with aritificial sweeteners need to overcome.
> Did they try every possible "artificial sweeteners"?
The study which I linked in another reply looked at various commercially available artificial sweeteners and some combinations. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani14203032
This is necessary because not every species' taste receptors respond to every type of sweetener, e.g. rats do not respond to NHDC.
> These aren't like the same substance tweaked a bit where you're in a endless ratrace with the chemists.
Well it depends on who has the burden of proof that a certain food additive is safe and does not cause undesired long term effects, especially in children.