I thought I had finally found a healthy drink I liked with no artificial sweetness and they had to go and fuck it up

  • ThatoneguyOP
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    3 days ago

    To clarify I don’t necessarily have an issue with stevia itself it’s the fact that it is usually mixed with erythritol which is bad for you.

    • BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one
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      3 days ago

      usually mixed with erythritol

      Your photo shows no evidence of this.

      is bad for you

      I’m fucking done reading shit on the internet where people say things and expect us to believe them at face value. You made this statement, and it isn’t my burden to provide evidence to prove you correct, you will.

      Please provide everyone here a link for us to read and change our minds.

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        3 days ago

        Not the guy, but https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9028423/ was an interesting read.

        A quick glance on google about Stevia might lead you to this link, but the preview shows “Results showed that stevia might lead to microbial imbalance, disrupting the communication between Gram-negative bacteria in the gut via either the LasR or RhlR …” which seems bad, until you read the rest of the good things that Stevia is supposedly doing.

        Plus, the text behind that ellipses is “However, even if stevia inhibits these pathways, it cannot kill off the bacteria.”

        So this might just be some good old misinformation on google’s part.

        Edit: I mean to say that google is intentionally misleading people about Stevia.

    • The2b@lemmy.vg
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      3 days ago

      Do you have any actual data showing that reasonable amounts of erythritol is worse for you than any alternatives?

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      3 days ago

      erythritol

      Shouldn’t that be on the label if it was in there too? How can you assume it is when it’s not labelled?

      IDK what shitty country this is from, but it’s for sure an illegal label here (EU), on at least 2 counts.