Isn’t this the ingredient In a lot of foods that are said to be diabetic friendly?
Xylitol also kills dogs, so, whatever this study says, at least keep it away from your dogs.
erythritol was also correlated with heart disease.
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/erythritol-cardiovascular-events
They’re not really so close that i’d expect them to both trigger. I wonder if the tests excluded other sweeteners.
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.
I don’t know, I think it’s appropriate. If they just said Xylitol hardly anyone is actually going to know what that is or if it affects them. The title gives people an idea of how common it is and what foods it’s used in, which is more useful information to most people.
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.
Where I live, xylitol has been a staple for decades and decades. It’s good for mouth hygiene, too. A correlation like in the article would probably show as a perceivable difference in overall strokes of our country’s populace as a whole, comparing to others, if it really was a thing that mattered. Might be, haven’t checked, but pretty sure we aren’t any more prone for that than any others. And here we eat xylitol from child up, usually several a day, after meals as gum (not the sugary candy-like gum, but the one intended to stop the acid attack) or pastilles. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t honestly. I don’t even know if you can get sugar gum anywhere, it’s so ubiquitous to xylitol and mouth hygiene.
So I mean, be suspicious, sure, but I’m pretty sure it’s highly tested and kept tracked here, because it’s a daily thing for everyone basically.
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.
They’re referring to Xylitol. Xylitol.
In jam? D:
Oh that makes it much clearer than the headline. Is it some sort of floor cleaner?
Sugar alcohols are in a huge number of processed foods and might be responsible for a non negligible number of people feeling like shit. Fairly sure a local family owned bakery reduced some amount of sugar in their baked goods with sugar alcohols and it is not advertised and no ingredient list required unlike supermarkets. It is getting hard to escape stuff like this.
“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.
How can you ignore diabetes and the other risk factors that lead to using sugar-free products and are huge risk factors in themselves?
At least exclude certain ones.
Plenty of people use xyitol products for other reasons. For instance, I just bought a pack of xylitol gum to carry because I won’t be able to brush my teeth during the day. Gum with sugar makes my teeth feel worse.
Exclude smokers and people with uncontrolled diabetes and cholesterol at least.
Study the gym goers that want to eat their sugar as treats and use xylitol drinks or breath mints daily.
How much caffeine was in everyone’s system? Alcohol? Were the other blood level markers in range?
With no controls, it could be anything. Maybe they were all covering cigarette and beer breath with mints when they had a cardiac event.
I hate studies like this.
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 . . .”
Pretty much every study ends with “more study is needed”. It’s rare for a study of this type to be conclusive.
If you deny the scientific method because you fear everyone is a shill, you’re probably gonna have a bad time.
ok Big Xylitol, you’ll never get me!
That’s added to the end of literally every study. It’s an acknowledgement that not every single conceivable question has been answered by this study. Further research is always required.
Bro did NOT get the joke lmao
The same shit is the reason everyone dropped using msg…which surprise turned out to be Bullshit.
Okay, what would consider the threshold for “maybe we shouldn’t do that?”
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.
So glad we let companies sell us whatever poison hasn’t had enough research yet to show it’s unsafe…
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.
It’s amazing that you can actually buy peanut butter that is just strictly peanut butter, no additives. 🤷
There is a bit of a price difference, isn’t there? And the all peanuts stuff isn’t as good at hiding pills in, is it? Because it is so oily it doesn’t form around the pill like the cheap stuff, right?
So it’s amazing and you have to pay more for something absolutely useless for the task at hand. But maybe you didn’t know that. Maybe you were being clever but lacking the experience to be helpful.
Dogs eat shit, therefore my shit should be illegal? Think about that, if we banned it because dogs might eat it there’s alot of things we would ban because a pet might eat it.
It’s so common now that it’s a meme trope, but right before a location legalizes THC usage, there is always a maaaaaaaaaassive scare campaign about how literally every single pet is going to eat a thousand weed gummies and die as soon as legalization happens.
…and then for years after legalization that just never fucking happens because it turns out people love their pets and don’t just casually leave out poison for them.
Your shit isn’t immediately toxic to dogs. But you really should learn to use a toilet and stop leaving shit everywhere.
What are you? The police chasing me around downtown L.A. while I’m naked from the waste down leaving a Hershey squirt obstacle for the cops to slip in? Because if you are, that was some other guy…
I am from the internet. I’m here to help.
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?
I didn’t know it was in jam as well. It’s potent dog poison. Not sure about cats. Should be outlawed, it’s not like we don’t have other sweeteners that aren’t dog poison.
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.
At least some of that seems to be taken into account already:
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.
Still agree more research is needed.
I read that to mean they did not take any of that into account. Since the data was independent of underlying factors, they ignored those underlying factors. Which were probably the actual factors.
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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?
Diet colas, snack foods, anything really it’s just another artificial sweetener. It most likely will not be any worse than aspartame with more studies.
Dammit. I chew a lot of gum and there is no good option. I have to start looking for sugared gum.
Just start smoking.
Tried that for 25 years
Avoid sugared gum. I also used to chew a lot of gum and was trying to stick with sorbitol because xylitol gave me stomach pains. That limited me to Wrigley’s. Anyway, due to my confusion after it went out of stock, I was buying sugared gum instead, and finally ended up having to fill 6 cavities before I checked the label and made the connection. All that sugar sitting on my teeth all day was not good, to say the least. I quit cold turkey after that (and also gum).
Reminds me of that one actress from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory who got 13 cavities from being required to constantly chew gum on set.
I had not heard that one. That’s horrible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMlZJlw9Cck&t=81s
Doesn’t seem like it was all that bad for her.
FYI chewing gum is made of plastic. So there’s that.
I’ve been using TrueGum which is made from natural gums. But it has Xylitol.
Search for chewing gum that uses sorbitol as sweetener instead. Luckily for me my favorite brand, Airwaves, uses that and not xylitol.
Isn’t it just another sugar alcohol? I’m sure it’s up next on the list, just not as popular.
It is a sugar alcohol, but also naturally occurring in apples and pears, so it at least seems safer.
Not necessarily. The naturolistic fallacy exists for a reason.
Xylitol also occurs naturally in plums, strawberries, raspberries, rowanberries, and bananas among others. And our livers even produce small amounts when breaking down sugars.
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Xylitol is what they’re talking about in this article
If you had one single job to do before posting a comment, what do you think that job would be? 🤡🤦
- Read headline
- Read comments to see if link is worth opening.
- Respond to interesting comments
- Maaaybe open the link.
This is what everyone does, right?
FIRST of all, that’s more than “one single job”… :P :)
Read the article please.
xylitol is not good for your dog. Eating your left over chewed gum could be enough to kill a dog. It’s a potent poison. And a nasty death I hear.
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Thank you.
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.
If I’m blocked up I drink two sips of a diet coke…while sitting on the can. Aspartame clears everything out…right…fucking…now.
Yeah, I actually avoid aspartame as much as I can. The whole drinking it to clear the pipes thing was a joke. Well, the drinking it with intent bit, it does in fact destroy my guts.
