Sweet salvation? Scientists at Tufts University have discovered a way to produce a safe dupe for sucrose, AKA table sugar.

Compared with common sugars such as glucose, fructose, and sucrose, tagatose exists only in tiny amounts in nature. It ...

Scientists at Tufts have found a way to turn common glucose into a rare sugar that tastes almost exactly like table sugar—but with far fewer downsides. Using engineered bacteria as microscopic ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- New research looks at your brain on fake sugar. About 40% of Americans regularly consume sugar substitutes, usually as a way to reduce calories or sugar intake. But could these ...

Scientists are closing in on something food companies have chased for decades: a sugar that tastes like the real thing, ...

As per initial findings, tagatose tastes 92% like sugar and has about one third of the calories that sugar contains. It doesn ...

A newly developed sugar alternative tastes 92% like real sugar, say scientists, but with 60% fewer calories and minimal blood ...

Interpreting a food label is a key skill to have.

Some “healthy” foods are surprisingly high in sugar. Our dietitian reveals foods that seem healthy but are loaded with sugar.

(AP) Just try sugar-coating this: The World Health Organization says your daily sugar intake should be just 5 percent of your total calories half of what the agency previously recommended, according ...