This clickbait bullshit should not be tolerated. The ingredient name in question is only one word, instead of the stupid sentence they used.
It’s xylitol. Shame on every shitbag sellout that decided to not just say that in the headline.
Fr. Clickbait is bullshit. I worked at whole foods when Xylitol was first making its way onto the market as a “natural” 0 cal sweetener and I was always skeptical of it and never intentionally bought anything with it in it. I can’t say I’m surprised to see this.
It’s good to be skeptical, but please don’t give this particular article toooo much weight. It’s not a real experiment, it’s just just an observation of correlation which doesn’t prove anything at all.
This website can show you plenty of other things that are extremely highly correlated. It really doesn’t prove anything.
They’re referring to Xylitol. Xylitol.
Sugar alcohols are in a huge number of processed foods and might be responsible for a non negligible number of people feeling like shit. Fairly sure a local family owned bakery reduced some amount of sugar in their baked goods with sugar alcohols and it is not advertised and no ingredient list required unlike supermarkets. It is getting hard to escape stuff like this.
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.
Seriously, being fat is also highly correlated with heart disease.
So glad we let companies sell us whatever poison hasn’t had enough research yet to show it’s unsafe…
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
Nearly all dietary studies are correlation studies, unfortunately.
It would make a great tag for such posts, if tags existed.
Xylitol
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.
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.
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.
I complain to my wife all the time that sugar alcohols shoild be banned from food products.
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.
Xylitol? The sweetener that kills pets? I’m shocked, Shocked I say!
So do fucking grapes.
Uh oh.
