A small trial from the Cleveland Clinic is the first head-to-head analysis of how erythritol affects cardiovascular risks compared with sugar.
Archived version: https://archive.ph/5yESq
n=20. This is wayyyy too small a study to draw conclusions beyond “more research required”.
If you were actually versed in statistics and designing scientific studies, you would know that is a perfectly acceptable sample size.
TLDR: it’s erythritol.
I avoid erythritol because you have to use so much of it. With something like aspartame it’s so much sweeter than sugar per gram that even if it all converted to formaldehyde a few sodas would be nothing to worry about. But erythritol is 30% less sweet than sugar so they put a bunch in. And the full effects of a bunch of a not-very-metabolized substance haven’t been well-enough studied for me to not just get some other fake sugar thing instead.
As the other commenter said, though, this study had very small N.
I hate artificial sweeteners. They taste worse than suger.
Some people can just drink a glass of normal, no diet, soda once in a while. Rather have some sugar containing soda once every 4-5 days. Some people can moderate.
Nice try, Big Sugar!
ngl if artificial sweeteners also turn out to be bad for you, i’ll just cut out the last bit of sugar-free sodas i still drink and switch to water. No way am I going to go back to sodas with sugar.
There’s always seltzer!
Something has to be wrong with artificial sweeteners based on how they taste
