They’re referring to Xylitol. Xylitol.
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.
So glad we let companies sell us whatever poison hasn’t had enough research yet to show it’s unsafe…
“In this observational work, however, it appears that xylitol has a negative long-term effect on cardiovascular events in the general population. As with all observational studies, causalities are difficult to infer, but this work shows that further studies are mandated into this societally important topic.”
This is important, because the outcome of the study is: we need more studies. It is not that xylitol has been shown to be dangerous, a jump so many comments have made.
There was an observed effect in people who had “high blood levels of xylitol”. But there were few if any other controls:
The researchers also highlighted that the association was independent of underlying factors such as body mass index, hypertension, diabetes and lipid levels, which might predispose people to low-calorie products.
It’s been known for a while that extremely high levels of xylitol can act as a diuretic, but that’s true of a lot of other things, too. That’s also not relevant here. It’s important to not jump to unwarranted conclusions until more proper studies are conducted.
Just pointing out the obvious. A shill for xylitol (tobacco, diesel cars, coal power plants, Israel . . ) would say the exact same thing - “more study is needed . . .”
Okay, what would consider the threshold for “maybe we shouldn’t do that?”
The same shit is the reason everyone dropped using msg…which surprise turned out to be Bullshit.
If you deny the scientific method because you fear everyone is a shill, you’re probably gonna have a bad time.
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.
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
Another note is that this is a sweetener, so it replaces sugar, and sugar is also linked to strokes and heart attacks through diabetes and obesity.
Nearly all dietary studies are correlation studies, unfortunately.
It would make a great tag for such posts, if tags existed.
Xylitol
Xylotol in small amounts tastes sweet and kills the bacteria breaking you teeth. In large quantities it makes you shit hit liquid.
Edit: hit should have been hot as in burning, 37C not erotic. ;)
In large quantities it makes you shit hit liquid.
I guess I’ve never had a large quantity as I don’t know what it’s like to shit hit liquid.
I ate too many gummy bears and my toilet afterward went triple platinum
You need more fiber in your diet. Eat a vegetable or a bean for once in your life.
Fortunately for you, you can read about the experience instead of living it.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/sugarless-gummy-bears-are-not-safe-for-humans/
https://www.boredpanda.com/hilarious-comments-sugarfree-haribo-gummies/
Fun (?) fact, the reason why those sugarless Haribo Bears are so infamous isn’t because of Xylitol - but rather Maltitol.
I’m pretty good with most artificial sweeteners, but anything more than ~10g of Maltitol over the course of a day creates the sort of farts that clears rooms - and anything approaching 20g causes such horrendous diarrhoea that I wouldn’t even wish it upon my most constipated enemies.
Not to mention that Maltitol is also a bit of a bastard in that it still partially raises blood sugar levels - so most strict keto diets either abstain or count it as ~50% carbs.
Yes, but what is “hit liquid”?
I think they meant “hot liquid”
Indeed.
and flat out kills your dog
So does chocolate. Let’s ban that too?
That shit is killing dogs too. Should’ve been banned long time ago.
It’s basically anti-freeze to dogs. Kills them quickly and painfully from even relatively small amounts
chocolate kills dogs too
They don’t sneak chocolate into peanut butter and people use peanut butter as a dog treat it as a way to hide medication from dogs.
Xylitol shouldn’t be used in any product a dog might be tempted to eat. And dogs love peanut butter.
The fatal dose is significantly lower for xylitol. If my 90 lb dog ate a few pieces of chocolate, he might be miserable for a few days and need a vet visit, but it would take a lot to be fatal. If he ate a few pieces of gum, it could make him much, much sicker or kill him.
are we dogs?
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/erythritol
Often mixed with sugar substitutes, like cheap stevia leaf extract (or at least was, not sure, now).
Can’t wait to find out about maltodextrin, which is added to a lot:
https://www.healthline.com/health/food-nutrition/is-maltodextrin-bad-for-me
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?
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.
That one gives me crazy digestive issues, I’m always checking if it’s in the ingredients now.
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.
Wasn’t foaming at the mouth his default mode for the past few years anyway?
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.
Well yeah because stevia and monk fruit aren’t artificial, they’re natural alternatives to sweeteners.
I’m not making health claims but they do grow in the ground hence non artificial.
But yeah I don’t really like them, so I would wish it would say low sugar, and also no added sweetener alternatives or something, since that’s what I like and I will see low sugar and then buy it and it’s sickly sweet with the fake ones…
Whole leaf stevia is a little bitter, but I haven’t seen any studies on any of it. I haven’t looked, either, since I’ve cut out all of it, unless I’m out somewhere and can’t avoid it (questionable water sources, for example).
When they started using it in yogurt it almost made me vomit every time I bought it without checking. Didn’t take many times to learn, but too damn long. Everyone I’ve asked never had the same problem though. Turns out stevia just tastes heinous to me so… hooray?
“No added sugar” but then the ingredients list extra juice concentrate is another pet peeve.
Xylitol? The sweetener that kills pets? I’m shocked, Shocked I say!
So do fucking grapes.
Chocolate also kills pets.
If you read the article, you’ll see the authors of the study literally saying that not many conclusions should be drawn from it.
Uh oh.
