The Sweetener Trap & How to Avoid It: Easyread Large Edition

by Beatrice Trum Hunter

With this expanded revision of the 1982 classic The Sugar Trap, Beatrice Trum Hunter, noted writer on food issues, brings readers invaluable help for avoiding ''the sweetener trap.'' She exposes facts about today's many sweeteners from aspartame to stevia, sucralose, and xylitol. With careful research and well-weighed advice, Hunter explains why it is important to limit all added sugars. With awareness, readers can do it, despite misleading labeling, sly marketing tactics, and vague federal recommendations for sweetener intake that reflect research bias and strong pressures from sweetener interests.

464 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Beatrice Trum Hunter was a pioneer in natural foods cookbooks. She believed in a diet of whole grains, honey and vegetable oils as substitutes for refined flours, sugars and animal fats. She also warned against artificial additives, processed foods and preservatives. She died at age 98.