Given below are two statements: 

Assertion (A): Artificial sweeteners are added to the food to control the intake of calories.
Reason (R): -Most artificial sweeteners are inert and do not metabolize in the body.


 

1. Assertion and reason both are correct statements but reason does not explain assertion.
2. Assertion and reason both are correct and reason explains the assertion.
3. Assertion is the correct statement reason is the wrong statement.
4. Assertion is the wrong statement reason is the correct statement.-

Hint: Artificial sweeteners are synthetic sugar substitutes
Artificial sweeteners are added to the food to control the intake of calories because most of the artificial sweeteners are inert and do not metabolic in the body. 
Hence, Assertion and reason both are correct and reason explains the assertion.