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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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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: 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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