> Consumption of aspartame, saccharin, acesulfame k, erythritol, sorbitol, and xylitol was associated with a faster decline in global cognition, particularly in memory and verbal fluency domains.
These findings do NOT apply to tagatose, stevia, or mogroside.
Terr_ · 18h ago
> These findings do NOT apply to tagatose, stevia, or mogroside
I think it's important to call out the difference between "did not find a correlation" versus "did not look".
Tagatose is listed as part of their questionnaire, but not stevia or mogroside.
> these are natural sweeteners
Xylitol is also a natural sweetener, so it is at best premature to adopt a natural-versus-unnatural framing from these results.
Centrino · 11h ago
What about sucralose, another widely used artificial sweetener?
From the abstract:
> Consumption of aspartame, saccharin, acesulfame k, erythritol, sorbitol, and xylitol was associated with a faster decline in global cognition, particularly in memory and verbal fluency domains.
These findings do NOT apply to tagatose, stevia, or mogroside.
I think it's important to call out the difference between "did not find a correlation" versus "did not look".
Tagatose is listed as part of their questionnaire, but not stevia or mogroside.
> these are natural sweeteners
Xylitol is also a natural sweetener, so it is at best premature to adopt a natural-versus-unnatural framing from these results.