According to Joy Wilson, a pro baker and cookbook author, cane sugar does more than just make your cake taste delicious.

"Substituting sugar with liquid sweeteners can seriously throw off the ratio," McDowell explains, "and these ingredients vary drastically in weight and volume, so they can't be substituted 1:1 ...

In just five years Splenda, the sugar substitute, has grown from being a clever molecule designed to help people with diabetes to the dominant force in the artificial sweetener market. For sweet ...

Recent research from the University of Colorado Boulder indicates that erythritol, a common sugar substitute, may harm brain ...

Update 06/02/23, 2:55 p.m. ET: This article was updated with comment from Splenda. Update 06/02/23, 1:45 p.m. ET: This article was updated with comment from the International Sweeteners Association.

For example, Hanna said, one of the recipes was a cucumber salad containing 1/3 cup of Splenda sweetener. Hanna said she did not believe this met ADA nutrition guidelines.