Erythritol is a sugar substitute found in many low-calorie and diet-friendly foods and drinks. But new research suggests the compound may have an unexpected link to heart disease.
last week, found a strong association between erythritol and the risk for heart attacks and strokes.
Finally, the researchers gave a group of eight healthy volunteers a drink containing erythritol and saw strikingly high levels of erythritol in their bodies for two days afterward. While the new research doesn't conclusively prove a causal link between erythritol and cardiac issues,"it definitely raises a level of concern," says Swithers, who was not involved with the study.
“The results of this study are contrary to decades of scientific research showing reduced-calorie sweeteners like erythritol are safe, as evidenced by global regulatory permissions for their use in foods and beverages, and should not be extrapolated to the general population, as the participants in the intervention were already at increased risk for cardiovascular events,” said Robert Rankin, executive director of the, an association that represents the low- and reduced-calorie food and drink...
And he stresses that these results shouldn’t be cause for alarm because, in the long-term, “we’re going to be able to turn this into a way of better understanding heart disease and helping to prevent heart disease.”If you're someone who consumes a lot of sugary foods or drinks, swapping some of them out with artificially sweetened ones can beof those products, Linsenmeyer says. But, ultimately, you should aim to limit how much of those artificially sweetened products you consume as well.
To avoid those possible gastrointestinal effects, people should aim to eat no more than 10 to 15 grams of sugar alcohols per day, Linsenmeyer advises.known risk factors for blood clots
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