Sweeteners 13 topics · 56 claims

The class overview: as sugar substitutes they modestly aid weight loss and don't spike blood glucose, but observational links to diabetes and heart diseas…

Table sugar and added sugars (sucrose = glucose + fructose). Excess intake is genuinely linked to obesity, type-2 diabetes and dental caries, and its fruc…

Stevia (steviol glycosides) is the plant-derived non-nutritive sweetener. Its core claims are solid: it doesn't raise blood sugar (it isn't metabolized to…

The most-feared sweetener, largely exonerated by human data: its two biggest fears — cancer and raising blood sugar — are not supported at normal intakes.…

A polyol with a real (if low-certainty) dental niche and the same emerging, single-lab cardiovascular-thrombosis question as erythritol.

A rare sugar with near-zero calories. Good evidence it blunts the post-meal glucose rise and raises GLP-1; a modest body-fat effect; can cause osmotic GI…

The metabolically-distinct half of sugar: uniquely tied to raised uric acid/gout and liver fat, though claims of fully calorie-independent harm remain deb…

A very common blend sweetener; glycemically inert with no credible genotoxicity signal despite lingering suspicion.

A zero-calorie polyol under a cardiovascular-safety cloud from a single high-profile lab — provocative and mechanistically coherent, but not yet independe…

A natural non-caloric sweetener (mogrosides); glycemically neutral and considered safe, though the human trial base is thin.

The original 'cancer' sweetener — a male-rat bladder-tumour scare that does not apply to humans (delisted from the US carcinogen list in 2000).

Glycemically inert, but the artificial sweetener with the most consistent gut-microbiome signal — and its manufacturing impurity sucralose-6-acetate raise…

Glucose + fructose in nearly the same ratio as table sugar. Despite its villain reputation, HFCS is metabolically about equivalent to sucrose; its harms a…