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A diabetic person wants a calorie-free sweetener that can also be used in a dish cooked at high temperature. According to the standard NCERT treatment, the most suitable choice is

  1. Asucralose
  2. Baspartame
  3. Csucrose
  4. Dglucose

Answer: A

Sucralose is stable at cooking temperature and gives no calories. Aspartame decomposes on heating, while sucrose and glucose are sugars that raise blood glucose.
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