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The authors caution that their study was a laboratory study, conducted on cells, and larger studies in people are needed.

Ok, nice to know, moving on.

Why not just say, “Popular sugar substitute, erythritol…” in the title?

Add the fucking shit to the headline: Spoiler: it's Erythritol

I always told my buddy who was dieting in college that getting fake sugar sodas isn't the solution, it's to stop drinking soda...

So what brand is this stuff sold under so that I can speedrun that stroke?

Maybe the ultimate answer will turn out to be JUST EAT LESS FUCKING SUGAR.

What even uses this stuff? I only see Acesulfam-k, Sucralose, Stevia.

Edit: i'm european.

God damn it, I've been using this a lot. It's almost flavorless except sweet and doesn't take much to sweeten a large amount of water. I've been using the Truvia packets one in a large bottle of water with 1/8 of a teaspoon of crystalized lime or orange ( from a brewer supply co). All the other ones seem to have a chemical aftertaste to me.

Oh well, the second best time to stop is now I suppose.

I fucking knew it, this shit made me feel weird all the time.

erythritol was always a not so favored ingredient for me due to the weird cooling mouthfeel and GI effects

now if it turns out that allulose is bad for you, I'm going to be SO UPSET.

This seems interesting because they did some research in the actual mechanism that could create a cause-effect relation. Still need to be repeated to justify legal changes but that's a good start.

Much better than these "correlation" studies that say nothing. Like the ones saying "people who doesn't drink any alcohol die sooner that people who drink a cup of wine each day", that's totally faulty for a lot of evident reasons. And until now most artificial sweeteners studies were like that "people who use artificial sweeteners tend to have more health issues", like with the drink is reasonable to assume and consider that people who do such dietary changes is more likely to already have an underlying health issue that they are trying to cope with and it's obviously more in risk that healthy people that doesn't feel the need to control their diet.

As I said this study seems a little more promising as they did research on the actual mechanisms on which the health issues may happen. I hope it gets repeated enough times and, if needed, the product would be banned or properly labeled.

Damn it it's in Celsius. Glad I don't drink it often.

Meh…. It’s a research from the US. Let’s wait till more reputable sources confirm the studies.

Just another thing to check labels for, none of the drinks I have contain it which is good

Well shit I use it daily for my coffee and home-made milk tea. Reading all this stuff coming to light about sugar substitutes is gonna make me just go back to regular sugar or maybe coconut sugar, and I’ll just control my intake.

Interesting thing about most sugar substitutes is they actually kill mouth & gut microbiome.