non-nutritive

If you buy a sweet, low-calorie food, it probably contains an artificial sweetener—that’s a sweetener that contains few or no calories called a non-nutritive sweetener, that’s made in a laboratory, and that’s much sweeter than sugar.

Baby Bites Bridget Swinney 2007

If you buy a sweet, low-calorie food, it probably contains an artificial sweetener—that’s a sweetener that contains few or no calories called a non-nutritive sweetener, that’s made in a laboratory, and that’s much sweeter than sugar.

Baby Bites Bridget Swinney 2007

Manufacturers were left with a handful of options to flavor their products -- namely sugar or non-nutritive artificial sweeteners, thereby creating a generation who preferred sweet and sweeter.

Sugar or Sweetener? Your Body Knows What's Right 2010

If we didn't have these priorities and that time together, he'd be glued to a computer monitor or electronic device ... and I find that unacceptable; it's bubblegum for the mind, non-nutritive exercise for a small portion of the brain.

Youth Sports 2008

Manufacturers were left with a handful of options to flavor their products -- namely sugar or non-nutritive artificial sweeteners, thereby creating a generation who preferred sweet and sweeter.

Susan B. Dopart, M.S., R.D.: Sugar or Sweetener? Your Body Knows What's Right 2010

Well, I've had plenty of opportunities to tell my difficult breastfeeding stories here before so I won't repeat them at any length -- my oldest was given a bottle in the hospital and fought with me over nursing for about a week, my daughter second child had a "non-nutritive suck" so I had to pump.

"People are very cagey about saying anything that might give breastfeeding a bad name." Ann Althouse 2009

"A sweeping review of research studies of aspartame says there is no evidence that the non-nutritive sweetener causes cancer, neurological damage or other health problems in humans."

Break out the bubbly! ewillett 2007

A non-nutritive sweetener, aspartame is approximately 200 times sweeter than sucrose, the accepted standard for sweetness.

Aspartame Deemed Safe by Expert Panel? | Impact Lab 2007

Here is our question: Have you been trying, to little avail, to improve your health, exercise more, maybe lose a tiny bit of weight by reducing your intake of sugary carbonated beverages because you've been told for many, many years and in no uncertain terms that pretty much all sodas, energy drinks, Snapples, et al are completely non-nutritive, ridiculously fattening and not the slightest bit good for you?

Mark Morford: New Coke Mini - Now With 36% Less Cancerous Death! 2009

It's a non-nutritive sweetener about 180 times sweeter than sugar.

Dr. M.J. Wegmann: 13 Foods To Avoid 2009