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Lately he cought me in the office eating sweets and started to educate me how bad sugar is.

I mean, people do tend to eat more sugar than they probably should, but the main artificial sweetener that I see used in candies is xylitol, which is, unfortunately, also a laxative. Eat more than a few xylitol-sweetened candies at one sitting, and one’s in for diarrhea.

I assume that we don’t have an artificial sweeteners in 2024 that both avoids having a laxative effect and has the appropriate properties to subsititute for sugar in candies. I’d be delighted if someone would manage to develop one, though.

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arlaerion@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
The laxative properties disappear after a while (a few weeks). Our body accommodates for it so that 200g per day are no big problem anymore.

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Dungrad@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Good lord. I went to the kitchen to get me a coffee and grabbed a cookie from the snack bar.

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Koike@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Xylitol also have interesting properties for preventing tooth decay. Not the worst sugar alternative imo

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- Preflight_Tomato@lemm.ee ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  IIRC it doesn’t do anything prevent tooth decay, it just doesn’t cause it, unlike sugar and many other sugar substitutes.
  
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  - idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    It stimulates the salivary glands, and saliva does prevent tooth decay.
    
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Spookyghost@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Yes we do, they just arent as cheap.

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