McDonald's has moved to provide more salads and other healthier foods with less sugar, salt and fat in them, in response to public concerns about diet.

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Chefs are getting by with less sugar and salt.

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Breakfast cereal eaters can now choose between the regular versions of Kellogg 's (nyse: K - news - people ) Frosted Flakes and Fruit Loops, and one with one-third less sugar.

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Rats with tumours were also less eager to drink sugar water, a substance that usually attracts the appetites of healthy rats.

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Nor was he less determined when the men marched out of the dairy with sacks of sugar, cornmeal, flour, and rice on their shoulders.

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They are generally less sweet than sucrose (table sugar), so they are often mixed with very sweet artificial sweeteners like aspartame, sucralose and acesulfame potassium, to form a palatable substitute in low sugar, low carbohydrate, and diabetic or "diet" products.

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