A new study of 20 healthy adult volunteers found that common doses of sweetener in soft drinks or sweets were associated with increased platelet activity.
Increasing evidence shows that erythritola widely used artificial sweetener may pose risks to consumers’ heart health.
A new study of 20 healthy adult volunteers found that at doses found in sweets such as soft drinks or brownies, the sweetener was associated with increased platelet activity, which could increase the chance of blood clots. Chairman of the Department of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Researchers led by Stanley Haze point to something that is not observed with sugar.
The results of the study were published in the journal on August 8 Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology.
What the new study showed
The new study comes more than a year after similar findings about the sweetener were published by the same scientific team in the journal Nature Medicine.
According to a previous study of nearly 1,200 people, those with high levels of erythritol in their blood were twice as likely to have a heart attack or stroke.
When the study was published in the journal Nature Medicine, Dr. “It’s literally one of the fastest growing artificial sweeteners in processed foods,” Hazen said.
“We make it ourselves in our bodies, but in amounts that are a thousand to a million times less than what we consume when we eat a product that contains it,” he added.
In the new study, 20 healthy volunteers were given a dose of erythritol equivalent to that found in a sugar-free muffin or diet soda. The researchers found that blood levels of erythritol increased 1,000-fold immediately afterward, which was accompanied by a large increase in blood clot formation.
According to the researchers, this suggests that a typical meal or soft drink containing the sweetener in question may directly cause clotting.
Erythritol is classified as “generally recognized as safe” by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). According to Haze’s team, the main reason for this is that erythritol occurs naturally in some fruits and vegetables and is “a byproduct of glucose metabolism in humans, albeit in small amounts.”
However, according to Haze, data from his team’s research show that choosing occasional and low-sugar sweets is better than consuming erythritol-containing drinks and foods, especially for people with high risk of blood clots, such as heart disease. diabetes or metabolic syndrome.
The research was supported by the US National Institutes of Health and the Dietary Supplement Administration.