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This Popular Zero-Calorie Sweetener Could Impair Brain Blood Vessel Cells, Study Suggests [Erythritol]
Study Finds ^ | July 15, 2025 | Auburn Berry and Christopher DeSouza (University of Colorado, Boulder)

Posted on 07/15/2025 8:41:09 AM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 07/15/2025 8:41:09 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

I think I’ve seen erythritol in things like sugar free pancake syrup, but afaik, it’s not in diet sodas.


2 posted on 07/15/2025 8:49:01 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Red Badger
Products with Erythritol

Some products that contain erythritol include:

Truvia: This product primarily markets itself as a stevia-based sweetener, but it actually contains a blend of stevia and erythritol.
Pyure Organic: This product is a blend of stevia and erythritol.
HighKey: HighKey products like cookies and brownie bites often contain erythritol as a sweetener.
Quest Nutrition: Many of their protein cookies, bars, and other snacks contain erythritol.
Kiss My Keto: Their cookies and other baked goods use erythritol.
Good Dee’s: Baking mixes for low-carb cookies, brownies, and cakes often contain erythritol.
Lily’s Sweets: Their chocolate bars, chocolate chips, and other chocolate products are sweetened with a blend of erythritol and stevia.
SmartSweets: These low-sugar gummy candies often use erythritol as a sweetener.
Russell Stover: Their sugar-free chocolates and candies contain erythritol.
ChocZero: This brand offers sugar-free chocolate products, all sweetened with erythritol.
Bai: Bai Antioxidant Infusions and Bai Bubbles beverages are sweetened with a combination of erythritol and stevia.
VitaminWater Zero: Some varieties of VitaminWater Zero include erythritol as a sweetener.
SoBe Water: Certain SoBe Lifewater products contain erythritol.
G Fuel: This energy drink mix contains erythritol as one of its sweeteners.
Bang Keto Coffee: Bang’s Keto Coffee beverages include erythritol.
Monster Energy Ultra: Some of the "Ultra" line of Monster Energy drinks are sweetened with a mix of erythritol and other sugar alcohols.
SlimFast Keto: Their meal bars, shakes, and snacks in the keto line often contain erythritol.
Keto and Co: Products like granola and baking mixes often contain erythritol.
Love Good Fats: Their snack bars are sweetened with erythritol.
Atkins: Many of their protein bars, shakes, and snack products include erythritol.
Orgain: Some of their protein powders and shakes contain erythritol.
Garden of Life: Their protein and meal replacement powders include erythritol.
KetoLogic: Their BHB exogenous ketones and meal replacement shakes often contain erythritol.
Perfect Keto: Keto bars, snacks, and supplements with erythritol.
Primal Kitchen: Keto-friendly pantry staples.
Know Brainer: Keto creamer and beverages.
Rebel Creamery: Their keto-friendly ice creams are sweetened with erythritol and other low-carb sweeteners.
Truvia: This product primarily markets itself as a stevia-based sweetener, but it actually contains a blend of stevia and erythritol.
Splenda: Some products may contain erythritol.
Vitamin Water Zero: Some varieties of VitaminWater Zero include erythritol as a sweetener.
Halo Top Ice Cream: This product contains erythritol. Lakanto: This brand offers monk fruit sweeteners that contain erythritol.
Swerve: This brand offers a sweetener that contains erythritol.
Sukrin: This brand offers a sweetener that contains erythritol.
Tabletop artificial sweeteners: Many brands of tabletop artificial sweeteners such as monk fruit, Lakonta, Swerve, Sukrin, and Truvia may contain erythritol.

Products with Erythritol

3 posted on 07/15/2025 8:51:18 AM PDT by Enterprise ( These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism.)
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To: Flaming Conservative

I do know it’s huge in Lego recipes.


4 posted on 07/15/2025 8:51:33 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Red Badger
found in many sugar-free drinks"

No, not really. At least not popular main-line beverages. I even had AI do a search - and it listed several products, including Coke Zero as containing it - yet every detailed ingredient list I can find does NOT list erythritol in any of the beverages I checked.

Erythritol is more common in candies and other foods. It is a sugar alcohol, and as such tends to have a laxative effect when consumed in significant quantities.

This sweetener may very well present the claimed neurological issues, but I really wish the inflammatory (and generally false) claims to scare people were not part of it. It takes away credibility.

5 posted on 07/15/2025 8:52:03 AM PDT by TheBattman (Democrats-Progressives-Marxists-Socialists-Satanists: redundant labels.)
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To: Flaming Conservative

You are probably right. The list in Post #3 doesn’t show any sodas containing Erythritol.


6 posted on 07/15/2025 8:53:50 AM PDT by Enterprise ( These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism.)
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To: Enterprise

I did not see diet coke on the list. My wife drinks diet coke.


7 posted on 07/15/2025 8:57:21 AM PDT by Daveinyork ( )
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To: TheBattman

It is starting to look like sugar substitutes like cyclamates are actually better for us than modern sugar substitutes.

Maybe on my next trip to Canada I will load up on cyclamates and smuggle them back in.


8 posted on 07/15/2025 8:57:55 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: Red Badger

Sugar is bad. Sugar substitutes are far worse.


9 posted on 07/15/2025 9:02:09 AM PDT by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back)
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To: Daveinyork

That’s a relief. I do drink Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi.


10 posted on 07/15/2025 9:02:17 AM PDT by Enterprise ( These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism.)
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More here:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4316445/posts


11 posted on 07/15/2025 9:03:05 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: TheBattman
Coca-Cola clarified that Coke Zero and Diet Coke do not contain the sugar replacement called erythritol but instead have aspartame.

According to Coca-Cola's official website, aspartame is used in some of its products including Coke Zero Sugar, Diet Coke, Diet Coke Feisty Cherry, Diet Barq’s, Fanta Zero, Fresca, Gold Peak Diet Tea, Mello Yello Zero, Minute Maid Light, Pibb Zero, Seagrams Ginger Ale Zero Sugar, and Sprite Zero.

Erythritol is found naturally in some foods like wine, beer, and even cheese when they ferment.

However, it is not present in Coke Zero.

No Erythritol in Coke Zero

12 posted on 07/15/2025 9:07:10 AM PDT by Enterprise ( These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism.)
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To: Daveinyork

“My wife drinks diet coke.”
You know those diet drinks don’t work, right?
The only people you see drinking them are fat people.


13 posted on 07/15/2025 9:12:30 AM PDT by 9422WMR
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To: Flaming Conservative

“Lego recipes”

Is that a ‘thing’?
Never heard of Lego Recipes.
Unless it’s meant to be an inside joke.


14 posted on 07/15/2025 9:13:28 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: Enterprise

Aspartame is just as bad if not worse.


15 posted on 07/15/2025 9:20:12 AM PDT by redangus ( )
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To: Red Badger

4 later


16 posted on 07/15/2025 9:31:24 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: lee martell

Arrrgh! Spell checker!!! Keto recipes.


17 posted on 07/15/2025 9:38:26 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Enterprise

Aspartame isn’t exactly a great alternative either... but thanks for the follow-up.


18 posted on 07/15/2025 9:42:38 AM PDT by TheBattman (Democrats-Progressives-Marxists-Socialists-Satanists: redundant labels.)
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To: Flaming Conservative
>>Lego recipes

I think that was what did in Euell Gibbons…

*Ever eat a Lego? Many parts are edible.

19 posted on 07/15/2025 9:46:32 AM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: Flaming Conservative

Ha-ha!
Keto recipes, I’ve heard of.


20 posted on 07/15/2025 9:50:28 AM PDT by lee martell
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