Beware: Summer coolers with magic sugar

If you like buying halo-halo and other summer coolers from street vendors and shabby canteen then you need to take extra caution. The Department of Health (DOH) thru Health Secretary Esperanza Cabral warns the public with the used of “magic sugar” by several vendors as artificial sweetener due to high cane sugar prices. She said that this may cause a number of health risks because it contains sodium cyclamate. It is a substance banned in most countries since it is unfit for human consumption.