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erythritol
A zero-calorie polyol under a cardiovascular-safety cloud from a single high-profile lab — provocative and mechanistically coherent, but not yet independently confirmed (and confounded by endogenous production).
2 well-supported · 0 disputed. This shows how settled each sub-question is, not whether erythritol is "good." Direction lives in each claim below.
The 3 claims about erythritol
Each keeps its own verdict — we never average them away.
erythritol does not raise blood glucose
Strong support
Does erythritol raise your risk of heart attack and stroke?
Leans support There's a real, repeated signal worth taking seriously: people with higher erythritol in their blood have more cardiovascular events, and lab work shows it makes platelets clot more readily. The catch is that blood erythritol partly reflects what your body makes on its own, not just what you ate — and no trial has tested whether consuming it actually causes events. A genuine flag, not a settled finding.
erythritol causes gastrointestinal symptoms
Contested
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