Submitted 5 hours ago by Pro@reddthat.com to science@mander.xyz
Our study adds to the evidence suggesting that non-nutritive sweeteners that have generally been purported to be safe, may not come without negative health consequences,”
No. It adds to research about this sweetener. You can’t generalize beyond that.
emjreviews.com/…/artificial-sweetener-erythritol-…
Source that actually names the thing in its title.
Unfortunately it’s of course barely readable for laypeople. So is there a safe upper limit? Like if I put a teaspoon of it in my cup of coffee, am I destroying my brain?
Cells were treated with 6 mM erythritol, replicating the concentration found in a typical serving of an artificially sweetened drink, for three hours.
What’s “mM”?
Ah. I remember that from desperately trying to wrap my head around it in Chemistry class. Thank you, it’s impossible to search for.
What’s crazy is that I wasn’t familiar with erythritol, and searched to see what had it as an ingredient. The entire first page of results were almost all the same AI generated cream touting the benefits of erythritol, like they were trying to sell me on it. And no specific foods were listed that had it as an ingredient.
There were a lot of things like “consider the delicious possibilities that erythritol can bring to your table.” Someone is trying to sell it that hard, then that alone tells me I should probably avoid it.
That’s the new normal for internet search results, not a concerted effort by big erythritol…
Wouldn't using normal sugar, but not a fuckton of it, be better?
That sounds healthy and not profitable in any way. Get out of here with that shit.
/s
Splenda doesn’t contain erythritol. That makes that whole article suspect.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Why cannot they just put erythriol in the title?
razorcandy@discuss.tchncs.de 4 hours ago
Then you wouldn’t click the link to find out what it was.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Yeah but shit like this makes me not want to read the article at all. I just skim it until I find what the thing is.
Just like some annoying marketing campaigns with ads that you have no fucking idea what they are about (like “.it’s coming”, “soon” and shit like that) and only find out like a month later when they make a new campaign actually telling you that. I will never engage with that company or buy the product juat because I hate ads like that.
fartsparkles@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Then you wouldn’t need to click the link and read 20,000 words and 15 adverts before the buried headline is finally revealed.