Xylitol isn’t an artificial sweetener, though. It’s derived naturally and isn’t synthesized in a lab environment.
I use it almost exclusively at home and I’m still here to type.
So, let’s see, last year it was Stevia and Erythritol that was bad for you. The long time standards have long been know for hazardous health outcomes. Sugar is “poison” still.
Recently, I read and article that touted the benefits of drinking black tea, BUT if you put lemon it it it becomes a potentially lethal cocktail.
Can’t win.
Sorbitol and KNO3 makes good fire starter and rocket fuel.
““When you eat sugar, your glucose level may go up 10% or 20% but it doesn’t go up a 1,000-fold,” said Hazen, who also directs the Cleveland Clinic’s Center for Microbiome and Human Health.”
OK. Without being able to see the actual study, I’ll call it utterly bogus!
An artificial sweetener drives up glucose levels 100,000% (1,000 fold)? Not a chance in hell!
OK, found a summary. It says “Many low-calorie sweeteners are sugar alcohols that also are produced endogenously, albeit at levels over 1000-fold lower than observed following consumption as a sugar substitute.”
Notice the HUGE difference: xylitol levels after eating it as a sweetener is 1,000 times greater than what your body produces on its own. I don’t know how much SUGAR your body produces endogenously, but I’d bet it is vastly lower than what happens after eating some apple pie!
A Time article says: “The researchers confirmed this mechanism by giving people both a xylitol-based and a glucose-based beverage to drink, and they found that xylitol levels jumped 1000 fold in the plasma immediately after they drank the xylitol beverage, along with levels of clotting factors, but not after they consumed the glucose beverage.”
NO KIDDING. If you consume xylitol, you’ll have more in your blood than you do if you eat sugar instead! And...how MUCH did they consume in their “xylitol-based” drink?
Now, as to heart disease: Is it likely that people using sugar substitutes are often doing so because they are overweight - and thus at higher risk?
Is this another “Wet streets cause rain” article?
There should be a study done for a complete list of products that have that stuff in them! ...imho
Maybe it’s why so many young people are dropping dead with all the artificial sweetener drinks they use???.
FTA: “We gave healthy volunteers a typical drink with xylitol to see how high the levels would get and they went up 1,000-fold,” said senior study author....”
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Their levels of what?
Is it just me? Did I hit my head or breather in too much chlorine today? I don’t understand what this article is trying to convince people of.
Look at this - “blood levels went up 1000 fold”. WHAT levels went up? Surely not blood sugar, right?
>>> We gave healthy volunteers a typical drink with xylitol to see how high the levels would get and they went up 1,000-fold,” said senior study author Dr. Stanley Hazen <<<
Because further down we read “because xylitol doesn’t spike blood sugar levels”,
>>>“When you eat sugar, your glucose level may go up 10% or 20% but it doesn’t go up a 1,000-fold,” said Hazen ....
“It’s sold as a so-called natural sweetener, and because xylitol doesn’t spike blood sugar levels, it’s also marketed as low carb and keto friendly,” Hazen said. <<<
BUT in the middle we do read that “scientists are blaming blood clots and heart attacks on xylitol” but they don’t know how exactly that works.
>>> Additional lab and animal research presented in both papers revealed erythritol and xylitol may cause blood platelets to clot more readily. Clots can break off and travel to the heart, triggering a heart attack, or to the brain, triggering a stroke.
In the new study on xylitol, “differences in platelet behavior were seen even after a person consumed a modest quantity of xylitol in a drink typical of a portion consumed in real life,” said Dr. Matthew Tomey <<<<
They taste not like sugar but some chemical concoction.
xylitol and erythitol
You are safe. The FDA says so.....
The FDA has determined these sweeteners are safe, or not toxic, for the general public:
Aspartame.
Acesulfame potassium (Ace-K)
Sucralose.
Neotame.
Advantame.
Saccharin.