FAB: Artificial sweeteners

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Artificial sweeteners - Research

Wu W et al 2025 - Sweetener aspartame aggravates atherosclerosis through insulin-triggered inflammation
Rose B et al 2024 - Host or the Hosted? Effects of Non-Nutritive Sweeteners on Intestinal and Microbial Mechanisms of Glycemic Control
Witkowski M et al 2024 - Xylitol is prothrombotic and associated with cardiovascular risk
Shil A et al 2024 - The artificial sweetener neotame negatively regulates the intestinal epithelium directly through T1R3-signaling and indirectly through pathogenic changes to model gut bacteria
Lane et al 2024 - Ultra-processed food exposure and adverse health outcomes: umbrella review of epidemiological meta-analyses
Sherling D et al 2024 - Newest updates to health providers on the hazards of ultra-processed foods and proposed solutions
Hosseini A et al 2023 - Consuming artificial sweeteners may alter the structure and function of duodenal microbial communities
Hedrick et al 2023 - Non-sugar sweeteners: helpful or harmful? The challenge of developing intake recommendations with the available research
Samuthpongtorn C et al 2023 - Consumption of Ultraprocessed Food and Risk of Depression
Steffen B et al 2023 - Long-term aspartame and saccharin intakes are related to greater volumes of visceral, intermuscular, and subcutaneous adipose tissue: the CARDIA study
Schiffman S et al 2023 - Toxicological and pharmacokinetic properties of sucralose-6-acetate and its parent sucralose: in vitro screening assays
Song Z et al 2023 - Effects of ultra-processed foods on the microbiota-gut-brain axis: The bread-and-butter issue
Asensi et al 2023 - Low-Grade Inflammation and Ultra-Processed Foods Consumption: A Review
Skurk T et al 2023 - Sweetener System Intervention Shifted Neutrophils from Homeostasis to Priming
Witkowski M et al 2023 - The artificial sweetener erythritol and cardiovascular event risk
Tsan L et al 2022 - Early life low-calorie sweetener consumption disrupts glucose regulation, sugar-motivated behavior, and memory function in rats
Suez J et al 2022 - Personalized microbiome-driven effects of non-nutritive sweeteners on human glucose tolerance
Contreras-Rodriguez et al 2022 - Dissecting ultra-processed foods and drinks: Do they have a potential to impact the brain?
Wang et al 2022 - A Metagenomics Investigation of Intergenerational Effects of Non-nutritive Sweeteners on Gut Microbiome
Buchanan K et al 2022 - The preference for sugar over sweetener depends on a gut sensor cell
Yunker A et al 2021 - Obesity and Sex-Related Associations With Differential Effects of Sucralose vs Sucrose on Appetite and Reward Processing: A Randomized Crossover Trial
Narula N et al 2021 - Association of ultra-processed food intake with risk of inflammatory bowel disease: prospective cohort study
Shil A et al 2021 - Artificial Sweeteners Negatively Regulate Pathogenic Characteristics of Two Model Gut Bacteria, E. coli and E. faecalis
Graneri L et al 2021 - The Consumption of Energy Drinks Induces Blood-Brain Barrier Dysfunction in Wild-Type Mice
Harris J et al 2021 - Misperceptions about added sugar, non-nutritive sweeteners and juice in popular children's drinks
Chazelas E et al 2020 - Sugary Drinks, Artificially-Sweetened Beverages, and Cardiovascular Disease in the NutriNet-Santé Cohort
Tan et al 2020 - The gut-brain axis mediates sugar preference
Dalenberg et al. 2020 - Short-Term Consumption of Sucralose with, but Not without, Carbohydrate Impairs Neural and Metabolic Sensitivity to Sugar in Humans
Nettleton et al 2020 - Maternal low-dose aspartame and stevia consumption with an obesogenic diet alters metabolism, gut microbiota and mesolimbic reward system in rat dams and their offspring
Herrick et al 2020 - Added Sugars Intake among US Infants and Toddlers
Kim et al 2019 - Non-nutritive Sweeteners and Glycaemic Control
Mullee et al 2019 - Association Between Soft Drink Consumption and Mortality in 10 European Countries
Millstone and Dawson 2019 - EFSA’s toxicological assessment of aspartame: was it even-handedly trying to identify possible unreliable positives and unreliable negatives?
Olivier-Van Stichelen et al 2019 - Maternal Exposure to Non-nutritive Sweeteners Impacts Progeny’s Metabolism and Microbiome
Ibrahim et al 2019 - Association between Soft Drink Consumption and Asthma among Qatari Adults
Sylvetsky et al 2019 - Consumption of low-calorie sweetened beverages is associated with higher total energy and sugar intake among children
Gamba et al 2019 - Sugar sweetened beverage consumption during pregnancy is associated with lower diet quality and greater total energy intake
German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) 2019 - Harmful compounds might be formed when foods containing the sweetener Sucralose are heated
Mossavar-Rahmani et al 2019 - Artificially Sweetened Beverages and Stroke, Coronary Heart Disease, and All-Cause Mortality in the Women’s Health Initiative
Sylvetsky et al 2019 - Trends in Low-Calorie Sweetener Consumption Among Pregnant Women in the United States
Toews et al 2019 - Association between intake of non-sugar sweeteners and health outcomes: systematic review and meta-analyses of randomised and non-randomised controlled trials and observational studies
Trasande et al 2018 - Food Additives and Child Health
Hoffman et al 2018 - The Influence of Sugar and Artificial Sweeteners on Vascular Health during the Onset and Progression of Diabetes
Madjd et al 2016 - Beneficial effects of replacing diet beverages with water on type 2 diabetic obese women following a hypo-energetic diet
Suez et al 2014 - Artificial sweeteners induce glucose intolerance by altering the gut microbiota.
Hu (2013) - Resolved: there is sufficient scientific evidence that decreasing sugar-sweetened beverage consumption will reduce the prevalence of obesity and obesity-related diseases

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