• diverging@piefed.social
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    6 days ago

    The sugar also supplies a significant amount of the volume of the product. Artificial sweetener is significantly sweeter than sucrose, like hundreds of times sweeter, so just swapping the sugar for artificial sweetener would require them to use a bulking agent. The safest bulking agent that doesn’t change the flavor or texture would be sugar.

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      13 hours ago

      i mostly agree but sugar absolutely changes texture and flavour of things, that’s why it’s so standard in baking sweets.