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What food sweeteners to avoid
What are food sweeteners

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

*This article only concentrates on food sweeteners, other food additives will be discussed in other articles.<

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

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In my ‘Discover The Truth About ADHD And Food Preservatives’ article, we discovered that food

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

s containing certain food preservatives are best avoided if your child suffers from ADHD.

Food sweeteners in some c

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

ases can also affect your child’s ADHD symptoms.

To further help your child, it would be wise for food sweeteners

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

to be eliminated or reduced in your child’s diet.

You will need to eliminate or reduce the following terrible ten i

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

ngredients from your child’s diet:

Food Colourings
Food Flavourings
BHA
BHT
easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi
TBHQ
Corn Syrup and Sweeteners
MSG
Sodium Benzoate
Nitrites
Calcium Propiona
nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically
te
What Are Food Sweeteners?

Today, food sweeteners are commonly added to processed foo

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

ds.

Food manufacturers add food sweeteners to their food products, as a ‘healthy’ alternative to sugar, to sweeten

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

the taste of their product.

The main sweeteners added to food are:

Corn Syrup (Glucose)
Fructose <

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

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Sucrose
Corn syrup, also known as glucose, comes from treated corn starch. It is a common problem

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

for children suffering from ADHD.

Fructose is another sweetener which can cause problems in sensitive children.

F

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

ructose is fruit sugar which is found in all fruits and it sounds totally natural.

But, the fructose used in proces

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

ed foods is extracted from sugar not fruit.

Table sugar or granulated sugar is sucrose which is extracted from suga

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

r cane or sugar beet.

Other sweeteners which you may cause ADHD symptoms are:

Aspartame
Corn sweet

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

ener
Cyclamate
Dextrose
High Fructose Corn Syrup
Polydextrose
Saccharin

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

*Source, Why Can’t My Child Behave, Jane Hersey

So, to sum up…

As well as foods containing:

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As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

te
Food colourings
Food flavourings
Food preservatives
It may also be wise to eli

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

minate or restrict foods containing the food sweeteners mentioned in this article to help your child’s ADHD symptoms

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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