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Major sugar substitute found to impair brain blood vessel cell function, posing potential stroke risk (medicalxpress.com)
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[–] 3dmvr@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It seems to not effect my coke zeros lol, think thats the only thing I use with a sugar sub but I def abuse it. Still gotta be better than the calories I used to consume.

[–] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

After reading this text, I’m afraid I have some bad news for you.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

The sweetener in question is erythritol. Coke Zero uses aspartame and acesulfame potassium.

Aspartame has shown evidence that it can potentially damage your liver, though.