Artificial sweeteners may change the way you taste your food, due to which you are less likely to make healthier food choices. Routine use of artificial sweeteners can make you shun healthy and nutritious foods while consuming more artificially flavoured foods with less nutritional value. This happens because frequent use of these ‘hyper-intense’ sweeteners leads to overstimulation of sugar receptors. This means people who routinely use them may find foods that are not intensely sweet, like fruits, less appealing, and foods such as vegetables downright unpalatable!
