erythritol was also correlated with heart disease.
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/erythritol-cardiovascular-events
They’re not really so close that i’d expect them to both trigger. I wonder if the tests excluded other sweeteners.
I complain to my wife all the time that sugar alcohols shoild be banned from food products.
And which food manufacturer does your wife run ?
I swear I’ve seen companies advertise “no artificial sweeteners” while using things like stevia or monk fruit. Maybe I’m misremembering, but it’s so irritating that you just have to know an increasingly long list of sweeteners to check for.
Well yeah because stevia and monk fruit aren’t artificial, they’re natural alternatives to sweeteners.
I’m not making health claims but they do grow in the ground hence non artificial.
But yeah I don’t really like them, so I would wish it would say low sugar, and also no added sweetener alternatives or something, since that’s what I like and I will see low sugar and then buy it and it’s sickly sweet with the fake ones…
Whole leaf stevia is a little bitter, but I haven’t seen any studies on any of it. I haven’t looked, either, since I’ve cut out all of it, unless I’m out somewhere and can’t avoid it (questionable water sources, for example).
When they started using it in yogurt it almost made me vomit every time I bought it without checking. Didn’t take many times to learn, but too damn long. Everyone I’ve asked never had the same problem though. Turns out stevia just tastes heinous to me so… hooray?
That’s probably the extract + ethyriol or maltodextrine., in the US. Outside, I don’t know. I’ve never seen a marketed product with whole leaf.
Ahh, probably then. I honestly forgot about the “whole leaf” vs extract thing, even though that was made as a clear point. I must be at the point I instinctually, typically process no difference. Even though it was clearly stated. Oooof.
“No added sugar” but then the ingredients list extra juice concentrate is another pet peeve.
“In this observational work, however, it appears that xylitol has a negative long-term effect on cardiovascular events in the general population. As with all observational studies, causalities are difficult to infer, but this work shows that further studies are mandated into this societally important topic.”
This is important, because the outcome of the study is: we need more studies. It is not that xylitol has been shown to be dangerous, a jump so many comments have made.
There was an observed effect in people who had “high blood levels of xylitol”. But there were few if any other controls:
The researchers also highlighted that the association was independent of underlying factors such as body mass index, hypertension, diabetes and lipid levels, which might predispose people to low-calorie products.
It’s been known for a while that extremely high levels of xylitol can act as a diuretic, but that’s true of a lot of other things, too. That’s also not relevant here. It’s important to not jump to unwarranted conclusions until more proper studies are conducted.
How can you ignore diabetes and the other risk factors that lead to using sugar-free products and are huge risk factors in themselves?
At least exclude certain ones.
Plenty of people use xyitol products for other reasons. For instance, I just bought a pack of xylitol gum to carry because I won’t be able to brush my teeth during the day. Gum with sugar makes my teeth feel worse.
Exclude smokers and people with uncontrolled diabetes and cholesterol at least.
Study the gym goers that want to eat their sugar as treats and use xylitol drinks or breath mints daily.
How much caffeine was in everyone’s system? Alcohol? Were the other blood level markers in range?
With no controls, it could be anything. Maybe they were all covering cigarette and beer breath with mints when they had a cardiac event.
I hate studies like this.
Just pointing out the obvious. A shill for xylitol (tobacco, diesel cars, coal power plants, Israel . . ) would say the exact same thing - “more study is needed . . .”
Pretty much every study ends with “more study is needed”. It’s rare for a study of this type to be conclusive.
Anyone saying “all the science is done, no more study is needed” is not to be trusted.
If you deny the scientific method because you fear everyone is a shill, you’re probably gonna have a bad time.
ok Big Xylitol, you’ll never get me!
That’s added to the end of literally every study. It’s an acknowledgement that not every single conceivable question has been answered by this study. Further research is always required.
Bro did NOT get the joke lmao
The same shit is the reason everyone dropped using msg…which surprise turned out to be Bullshit.
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/erythritol
Often mixed with sugar substitutes, like cheap stevia leaf extract (or at least was, not sure, now).
Can’t wait to find out about maltodextrin, which is added to a lot:
https://www.healthline.com/health/food-nutrition/is-maltodextrin-bad-for-me
Dammit. I chew a lot of gum and there is no good option. I have to start looking for sugared gum.
PUR gum uses xylitol, which is also good for your teeth.
Read the article please.
If you had one single job to do before posting a comment, what do you think that job would be? 🤡🤦
- Read headline
- Read comments to see if link is worth opening.
- Respond to interesting comments
- Maaaybe open the link.
This is what everyone does, right?
FIRST of all, that’s more than “one single job”… :P :)
They didn’t even get as far as step 2
Xylitol is what they’re talking about in this article
xylitol is not good for your dog. Eating your left over chewed gum could be enough to kill a dog. It’s a potent poison. And a nasty death I hear.
Thank you.
Avoid sugared gum. I also used to chew a lot of gum and was trying to stick with sorbitol because xylitol gave me stomach pains. That limited me to Wrigley’s. Anyway, due to my confusion after it went out of stock, I was buying sugared gum instead, and finally ended up having to fill 6 cavities before I checked the label and made the connection. All that sugar sitting on my teeth all day was not good, to say the least. I quit cold turkey after that (and also gum).
Reminds me of that one actress from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory who got 13 cavities from being required to constantly chew gum on set.
I had not heard that one. That’s horrible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMlZJlw9Cck&t=81s
Doesn’t seem like it was all that bad for her.
Search for chewing gum that uses sorbitol as sweetener instead. Luckily for me my favorite brand, Airwaves, uses that and not xylitol.
Isn’t it just another sugar alcohol? I’m sure it’s up next on the list, just not as popular.
It is a sugar alcohol, but also naturally occurring in apples and pears, so it at least seems safer.
Not necessarily. The naturolistic fallacy exists for a reason.
Xylitol also occurs naturally in plums, strawberries, raspberries, rowanberries, and bananas among others. And our livers even produce small amounts when breaking down sugars.
FYI chewing gum is made of plastic. So there’s that.
I’ve been using TrueGum which is made from natural gums. But it has Xylitol.
Just start smoking.
Heard this about Erithrytol as well. Not sure if that one is as confirmed. Cove Soda uses it, and I’m reluctant even though it’s tasty and Canadian.
That one gives me crazy digestive issues, I’m always checking if it’s in the ingredients now.
If I’m blocked up I drink two sips of a diet coke…while sitting on the can. Aspartame clears everything out…right…fucking…now.
Yeah, I actually avoid aspartame as much as I can. The whole drinking it to clear the pipes thing was a joke. Well, the drinking it with intent bit, it does in fact destroy my guts.
I was thinking a while ago that I missed chewing gum all the time and now I realize I may want to not pick up that habit again.
Xylitol is fantastic for dental health.
Im assuming theres some confounding factor like “people who chew a lot of gum and eat a lot of artificial sweeteners are also people who just eat a lot in general or have history of obesity/type 2 diabetes” or something until a dedicated study proves otherwise.
At least some of that seems to be taken into account already:
The researchers also highlighted that the association was independent of underlying factors such as body mass index, hypertension, diabetes and lipid levels, which might predispose people to low-calorie products.
Still agree more research is needed.
I read that to mean they did not take any of that into account. Since the data was independent of underlying factors, they ignored those underlying factors. Which were probably the actual factors.
The association was independent, not the data.
Isn’t this the ingredient In a lot of foods that are said to be diabetic friendly?
Xylitol? The sweetener that kills pets? I’m shocked, Shocked I say!
So do fucking grapes.
Chocolate also kills pets.
If you read the article, you’ll see the authors of the study literally saying that not many conclusions should be drawn from it.
They’re referring to Xylitol. Xylitol.
Oh that makes it much clearer than the headline. Is it some sort of floor cleaner?
JFK Jr to demand it be added to more US products in 3….2…1…
More like ban it outright. Anything that is generally seen as safe, but with some caveats, gets RFK jr. to foam at the mouth about how dangerous it is.
Wasn’t foaming at the mouth his default mode for the past few years anyway?
Uh oh.
What sort of diet leads to high blood levels? My guess is the xylitol in my mouthwash or toothpaste that I spit out isn’t causing a high level in the blood and still benefits my oral health. Any studies on that?
Diet colas, snack foods, anything really it’s just another artificial sweetener. It most likely will not be any worse than aspartame with more studies.
It is important to note that this was an observational study, meaning it can only show an association between higher xylitol levels and cardiovascular events, rather than proving that xylitol directly caused them, and further research is needed. But it is not a green light to have more sugar instead, as we still need to reduce our free sugar intake
Correlation vs Causation caveat is strongly needed here
Another note is that this is a sweetener, so it replaces sugar, and sugar is also linked to strokes and heart attacks through diabetes and obesity.
Nearly all dietary studies are correlation studies, unfortunately.
It would make a great tag for such posts, if tags existed.
