Natural sweeteners eg., sucrose add to calorie intake. Due to the occurrence of more cases of diabetes and obesity among young and old people, these days people usually take low-calorie drinks. These are artificial sweetening agents as given below

Saccharin It is 550 times as sweet as cane sugar. It is excreted from the body through urine.

Aspartame It is 100 times as sweet as cane sugar. Its use is limited to cold foods and soft drinks because it is unstable at cooking temperature.

Alitame is more stable than aspartame but the control of sweeteners of food is difficult while using it

Sucralose lt is stable at cooking temperature. it does not provide calories These artificial sweetening agents do not metabolize and hence do not produce any energy.