#431: Artificial Sweeteners - Health Impacts and ‘Safe’ Levels

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Danny Lennon

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🗓️ 24 March 2022

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

There is now widespread use of various "artificial sweeteners" in foods and beverages. Most commonly non-nutritive sweeteners are used to sweeten a products, whilst having less sugar and calories than a traditionally sugar-sweetened version of that product. For example, diet drinks (e.g. diet soda) are most commonly associated with artificial sweeteners. However, they are also in a wide variety of food products and supplements.

For a long-time there has been skepticism and alarm raised about their potential health effects. From claims of them increasing our food intake, all the way to causing cancer. And food safety authorities have conducted rigorous examinations of the safety data on each of these compounds.

In this episode, the Sigma team discuss the initial research that raised alarm bells, the current process of safety evaluation for non-nutritive sweeteners, the amounts they are consumed in, and the studies published thus far examining their health impacts.

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1:31.6	Hello and welcome to another episode of Sigma Nutrition Radio. This is episode 431 of the podcast.
1:39.9	My name is Danny Lennon. I'm here with Alan Flanagan and Eve Aspel. And today we're going to be
1:45.0	talking all about artificial sweeteners and looking at do they indeed harm our health? Are they
1:52.2	potentially beneficial or is it something in between? And so we've got a lot to work through here
1:56.5	because there's undoubtedly a number of different claims. I'm sure you've heard about those.
2:02.6	So we're going to dive through them one by one.
2:04.7	But before we get to that, Neve, how are you doing today?
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