How America Got Hooked On Artificial Sweeteners - Cheddar Explains
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Walk into any coffee shop or diner and you’ll spot packets of Sweet ‘n’ Low, Equal, or Splenda sweet right away. And, if you’re someone who uses these sweeteners, you’re not alone. In 2020 alone, 141 million Americans used sugar substitutes. They’re attractively marketed with little to no calories, claims of no weight gain and are supposedly safe for diabetics. But with all the hype comes a history of negative PR and health concerns, including possible cancer links. And yet talk of bans by the US Government have proven ineffective, even inciting chaos
So how did these small packets become so mighty?
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So what I take away is don't wash my hands, I may discover the next big sweetener.
Type 1 IDDM, diagnosed in 1972. I have used every single sugar substitute found in my area of the US, for most of my life. Started with Sugar Twin, then Sweet n' Low, and Equal, and Splenda... I very rarely use sugar substitutes these days. I drink my coffee black and like it that way. I use sugar for baking, and calculate my insulin dosage based on total grams of carbohydrate (from all sources) in my meals and snacks.
I'll never forget how angry I was when the ADA and medical community said "Ooooooops. People with diabetes can eat sugar- your body uses carbs from all sources the same way. Table sugar is used the same way your body uses cabs from fresh fruit." All of those sweet treats i never got to eat as a child. But- I did develop a healthy eating habit and diet thanks to avoiding sugary foods for decades. 😐
I live in the UK and here we have sugar in coffee shops. Having a sweetener that isn't sugar would be very odd to see
Just in coffee and tea shops but chewing gum to drinks have artificial sweetner
@@indian-tech-support oh yeah we definitely have lots of artificial sweeteners in food and drinks but never would you see a packet of it at a coffee shop instead of sugar
In the US we have a variety of sweeteners in coffee shops, including sugar.
@@FrozenDung I’ve actually seen small amounts of artificial sweetener sachets in some coffee chains in the UK, albeit in much smaller quantities than the sugar sachets they’re next to. But perhaps that’s different between cities and towns.
"More science needed" a classic corporate deflection tactic.
Video quality is amazing!
Eh I just don't like artificial sweeteners, they have a bitter after effects and I just like the taste of sugar canes better, don't know why, artificial sweeteners have a more instant sweet and not really a pleasant feeling
it depends on the sweetener, some climb some are instant. the amount of sugar is the reason why its more pleasant than artificial sweeteners. you can use a few mg of artificial compared to grams of sugar so if you add a few milligrams of sugar you will taste the same effect but less sweet.
Try mixing asparatime with saccharin it has a very similar effect to the sugar taste
So she seemed really judgmental and went like "ewww gross" when she talked about some guy licking his finger and then rolled her eyes when she mentioned WW1 :/
This is a recorded video and the script is also written so why present yourself like that? Those just seem like negative traits
I don't add sugar or artificial sweeteners into my coffee, but I add crushed euka menthols or bonbons as flavor
I just avoid the issue all together. I’ll take my coffee with Cream, no sugar. Or just black.
All artificial sweetener taste gross to me. I can taste the smallest amounts in food and drinks, which overtakes the whole product. There are some in use in Europe that are banned in the US. Spain adds it to their orange juice. :/
I use stevia in my tea but that’s the only time I use it
The ad at 3:30 is fake btw, I nearly fell for it lol
Dangerous if you're involved with a drug lord
I think Sucralose is alright if mixed with plenty of other flavors to mask it’s weirdness, and that aspartame just tastes off (to me) and saccharin tastes weirdly metallic (to me). My dad loves saccharin, probably because it’s what he grew up with, so I guess to each his own.
The voice of the presenter is way to nasal and sing-song sounding to listen to. I had to turn on the CC to understand what she said.. Also, I thought the piece could use more info on the last two products.
Watch out for your intestines using this things
I can't understand why tf you would put artificial sugar in a no added sugar drink, like um no I wanted no sugar not a disgusting sweetness like God why just make drinks with no sugar meaning no artificial either and let me drink happy
"gross... So gross " really?
Yeah thats gross
Is that a p 39 airacobra in your background photo? If so thats cool bro.
They are gross.
I can trace the history of artificial sweetener over my lifetime: growing up, we never used much sugar (outside of occasional baking) due to family history of diabetes; my grandma used loads of saccharine in coffee and sweet tea but died from cancer, my mom switched to aspartame over the health concerns and later switched to sucralose. I switched to Sugar in the Raw for a couple years because in college I had an organic hippie government distrust conspiracy phase. Now I'm a middle-aged aunt (the "cool" aunt) and I use stevia leaf extract and if they ever link that to cancer or anything, I'm in trouble.
I also don't drink any high-fructose corn syrupy sodas; only the "Zero" sodas which I think are sucralose
Human adults need to stop chasing drama perpetuated by other individuals needing such contrived “extra insight” provided by biased parties. Look at the baseline of pesticides & other chemicals in air and study orders of magnitude greater testing done for ingredient approvals in the U.S. You are surrounded by chemicals and you ARE chemicals…your saccharine or other intake is irrelevant
You're absolutely right. Any chemical is totally safe to consume in any amount
@@DariatheDaring : more shock factor for your insightful book or pretending sacred/unique knowledge that you pass to others? Nothing novel about quantity of an item being toxic but Sophomoric or melodramatic attempt at flippant response belies you altruistic intent at serving humanity. Snake 🐍 salesman was a term of the past & history is replete with such a reality where REAL toxicity existed. Now it is primarily invented by mythology & false demonization of food & food ingredients despite safety testing. You serve yourself & your circle should know that reality.
Lay off the sugar and immoral greed for sweet taste. Go out and explore the nature. After a full day hiking without any meal, you would appreciate any ordinary food.
I'm actually allergic to aspartame. I have to read labels so I can avoid migraines. Also, I truly despise the taste of artificial sweeteners. They leave a nasty, cloying taste in the back of my mouth. I haven't found one that doesn't.
Bummer about the allergy. Some folks here at the office like the taste of Diet Coke BECAUSE of the aspartame.
Do you have phenylketonurics?
My mom is the same way! I always feel so bad if i hand her a slice of gum or something without thinking about it :^(
@@johnkeefer8760 I have never been diagnosed with phenylketonuria, that would probably require me to remember to ask a physician and get blood tests. I just avoid artificial sweeteners.
Same here - allergic to aspartame and sucralose. Aspartame gives me really bad hives, full-body swelling, nausea and vomiting. Sucralose just gives me headaches in large amounts.
You got the discovery stories wrong. There weren't a bunch of scientists just randomly licking their fingers.
Saccharin was discovered when he went home for dinner and noticed the bread his wife served tasted sweeter. He went back to the lab the next day and tasted around for the culprit.
Cyclamate was discovered when someone rolled a cigarette in the lab and discovered that the wrapper tasted sweet.
Aspartame was actually discovered by someone licking their finger.
Sucralose was discovered when a university student misread the instructions on an experiment and tasted the contents of his beaker rather than testing it.
By being lazy and oversimplifying and confusing some facts, you've managed to call the accuracy of your entire video into question. If the discovery was worth mentioning, it's worth doing right. If it was deemed acceptable to gloss over, then just say "poor lab practices" for each or omit them entirely.
Well yours sound fake too
The whole thing played like a PR piece for the sugar industry, not saying it was paid for, but I question where the research in it came from.
Researcher: “aight time to go around licking random shit”
Thanks
"you've managed to call the accuracy of your entire video into question." If you cannot assess individual claims as possibly different from another than that issue is on you. No bit of information is a monolith. How far are you willing to go? How about this calling accuracy of the entire channel into question? Maybe calling the accuracy of youtube videos in general into question? Or the accuracy of any information on the internet?
I stopped drinking anything with sugar or anything sweet and i lost weight without doing any heavy exercise. Now my only source of sugar is from food like rice and that's more than enough according to normal sugar daily intake. American needs to drink more water
I’m so picky about artificial sweeteners, they seem to have an aftertaste. Monkfruit is not so bad, though!
Monk fruit.+ Allulose blend Tastes the best, they aren't cheap though. Monk fruit and allulose arent artificial sweeteners either, they are natural sugar alternatives.
@@claypool0 erythrytol and xylitol are amazing alternatives
@@Dave-dh7rt erythytol is pretty good, i still like allulose more though . Xylitol is questionable only because its absorbed by the body and some people may absorb more than others. so it has some calories
@@claypool0 even erythritol has calories. It sits at right about .2 per gram
My lab is actually doing researches on NNS(no nutritive sweetener, basically mean artificial sweetener). There are existing studies showing that long term use of nns(e.g. aspartame on mice) can alter our gut microbiota.Those microbiota composition change can lead to metabolic problems such as diabetes. So personally, I find actual sugar(sucrose etc.) is better than nns in terms of potential risk. Sucrose is good as long as you don’t overtake it.
The reason we always go back to the World Wars for answers, dear Nat, is because you can't begin to comprehend the world of today if you don't know what happened in the World Wars.
for sure! war times always create unique problems that results in countless numbers of innovations all at the same time. The first world war especially was the first post-industrial war, things got interesting and fast.
Let people lick their fingers in peace ffs
rationed to 2lb per month? How shocking!
The last kg I bought is... 5 years old?
Back then we didn't have sugar pre-added into everything we buy. The average American consumes more than 5 pounds of added sugar a month!
Processed food was not really a thing until after world war 2. Most of the food you were eating back then either came from a restaurant, or someone at home cooked it
@@tylerrose4416 And what should that say to me?
For a bread to feed a family for a day you need 1 spoon and you could even bake without. I don't put sugar on rice, potatos, noodles or whatever.
I can understand if it is about preserving fruits and making jam, but even then 1kg per person and month seems more than enough.
@@steemlenn8797 1 kg is more than 2 pounds, lmao
Reactive hypoglycemia is why I'm hooked on sweeteners. Sugar means immediate grogginess and unproductivity
Hypo, meaning low. Glyce, from the greek Glukus, meaning sugar. -emia, referring to blood. Low sugar content in blood.
@@MegaRad666 chubbyemu??
Yeah well it depends how fast the sugar dumps into my bloodstream, so if i drink anything sugary i'll imidiatly notice all the grogginess and fatigue, but then if i eat bread or starchy foods in general the blood sugar should raise like a few hours after ingestion but really i don't quite feel it, it's just right after the meal that i feel just a little bit tired, but nothing like sugary drinks though. Even honey although it has lots of simple sugars, it dumps pretty slow into my bloodstream and i don't consume a ton of it so it dosen't affect me much at all.
Best substitute for sugar is no sugar!
love how the video just barely talks about the health studies. as if it didn't wana bring the wrath of any possible corporate or lobbying entities...
So judgey about hand licking 😂 have you never eaten Cheetos? That was so iconic as a kid growing up.
Yeah it's like she's talking about putting hands in the trash and then licking them. She should really be less judgey.
Hi 👋, I used Splander or Equal Sugar! I am type 2 dailbetic and when my sugar is down I used BROWN SUGAR (RAW SUGAR) if needed! Sweet And Low is plan Nasty 🤢 no matter anyones say it’s better then others!!! I am sure they will in the future their be others brands will step up the game! You just watch!!!
You don't know why we always go back to world wars for the answers? You answered it next. 🤦 Rations. (Does Cheddar intentionally hire the dumbest narrators for these videos? Or is it accidental?) Let's go back to WWII to find out.
1:14 - If you work in a chemistry lab and don't wash your hands before eating, simple dirt and germs might be the least of your problems.
If they one day announce Xylitol causes cancer I'm dead. At least in Europe where I live Xylitol became somewhat trendy as the healthier alternative to artificial sweeteners so let's hope that won't backfire...
It gives you diarrhea and you have to run to the bathroom constantly and you have liquid poop
@@joeybaseball7352 that's only if you really eat a lot of it, i've had it after trying to sweeten my lemonade a few weeks back and boy did it not turn out well. However, you can build a tolerance to it surprisingly.
Xylitol is elite tho looks like sugar, tastes just like sugar and no aftertaste
Prefer splenda over stevia, esp. when baking. At the end of the day, it's all about moderation (like everything else)
I use them together in my coffee
The ad at 3:31 is mind blowing. Start your babies on soda asap.
I thought it was so crazy that I looked it up, was a fake Photoshop
@@CuriousFrog Thanks. That Soda Pop lobbying group did sound strange.
@@TheTriumfAnt even if that particular ad has exaggerated copy, there were real ads promoting soda for babies, such as with a baby bottle nipple on a Coca Cola bottle.
My step mother is an equal fiend, but I try to avoid sugar instead of using sweeteners, so when I do eat sugar just a little is really sweet.
Stevia is the one used in my house.
What do you like about Stevia in particular?
@@cheddar There’s several diabetic members in our household and stevia is a sugar substitute that comes from plants. We try to avoid sweeteners with aspartame, which appears to have greater health risks than the others.
That said there's always health risks with anything if not taken in moderation.
I thought the Domino effect was going to be a pun on the Domino sugar company. Also love how Saccharin was banned, but cigarettes? Nah, go ahead
real sugar was replaced in a Sodas etc. in the early/mid 1970s due to central American sugar cane crops being damaged in a hurricane. when I was in elementary School in the 1990s the kids used the sugar packet that came with our utensil package in our cereal while the teachers used it in their coffee/tea. I generally don't use sugar in my hot drinks
Eww. Artificial sweeteners are worse than sugar.
Can we all take a moment to appreciate the work Cheddar is doing to entertain and educate us with this video on Artificial Sweeteners? Thank you very much!.
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... said a Cheddar plant...
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@@dcgamer05 I wasn't calling you a plant. That was intended for the obviously obsequious, fawning comment about crappy Cheddar entertaining and educating us. Had no idea their parent company was an ISP. I can only imagine how awful they are.
To clarify: the gross thing isn't that they licked their hands, but that they didn't wash their hands after laboratory work. Eating things from your experimental laboratory is the biggest no-no in science for a reason!
I saw birds on a cafe patio that would steal and eat sugar packets but even they were smart enough to not take the yellow and pink packets
Reactive hypoglycemia is why I'm hooked on sweeteners. Sugar means immediate grogginess and unproductivity
I personally love stevia sweetener but only for the taste !! It's like a pleasant spin-off of sugar. I like putting some in apple sauce since it adds a sweet crunch
Artificial sweetners are just like strapping a glittery party hat onto a donkey's forehead and marketing it as a unicorn. People wouldn't resist, despite the blatant fakeness. Except with a very unpleasant aftertaste.
Just the other day I tried sweet n low and omg I fell in love with it. Somehow I still feel unhealthy
Don't be too worried. The actual amount of the saccharine in sweet n low is very small compared to its effect. The advantage is the sugar you didn't add. I use it as an enhancer to a small amount of sugar.
It’s good stuff
In order of preference, stevia, sucralose, aspartame.
sorry... I do not like that blond girl. Hope shes happy!
Quote: 'It's not just the US. In Europe trends were forecasted to grow 1.46% in 5 years."
In other words, a totally made up, not going to happen, non-event.
You know how journalism is. Using either headlines or urgent/excited tones to pass off numbers as if they're something significant, and hoping people won't think of it in perspective.
I’m a fan of Stevia in coffee. Everything else leaves an aftertaste that is 🤮
FunFact: white bread (the rectangular one that Germans would only eat toasted and not count as real bread) has 2 times the sugar in the US than in Germany. Which does not make it better...
Only sugar. I don't like the taste of sweetener.
You're a little judgey, Ms. RUclips.
Who did the script? Why is it so dumb and obnoxious?
I think this video just convinced me to quit Diet Coke
Artificial sweeteners aren't for me in any application. Just monitor your sugar intake. It's a cop out unless you have a medical condition requiring less sugar, i.e. diabetes. Stop drinking your calories
Saccharine actually tastes bitter to me.
No mention of stevia, the best choice.
But yet, I'm not a fan of artificial sweeteners. No only do they often have a distinctly bad "chemical" taste, but I've read they can sometime spike blood sugar levels even faster than real sugar can. It's pity they banned cyclamates, because more recent research showed cyclamates are not really different in terms of health effects compared to most modern artificial sweeteners.
Wtf u didn’t answer any of the health questions? U just said there is a possible link between sweetener and cancer 🤦♂️
Used sweetners for 30 odd years now in quite high quantities and still within ideal weight range with no health issues and hi eat a lot.
The only artificial sweetener that I knowingly use is aspartame in my chewing gum
I love Natalia and I usually check out any new video from Cheddar but you can't wrap up a video and pretend it's "news" of any kind when all you're doing, it seems, is googling some "facts" and getting a very pretty girl to discuss them. And for anyone who disagrees, try to explain away the use of the fake "Start Cola Earlier" ad from the not-at-all fake "Soda Pop Bd of America." I mean, if you want to make satirical content, then do it! But if you write facially serious "news" using parodies as if real ads for pushing soda on babies? Then what exactly are you doing?
Love Cheddar’s content but sometimes I get annoyed by the valley girl tone of some of the narrators. Like why does every statement end like a question??
😔I’m just being old, I know…
My problem with artificial sweeteners is that they destroy probiotics in your gut with the exception of monk fruit which is the most expensive artificial sweetener. OTC pain killers also destroy probiotics in your gut. That being said I use sucralose and ibuprofen everyday. Buy a high quality probiotic or even better buy fermented sauerkraut and eat it whenever you can that stuff has extremely high amounts of probiotics. So much that if you eat too much it may upset your tummy due to die-off which is what happens you replace bad bacteria in your gut with good bacteria too fast.
Many men don’t wash their hands after pooping 💩 and especially peeing, so they are used to unusually flavored fingers! Gross 🤮 It got a little better during the height of Covid, but they are going back to their old ways. If you are holding and talking on your cellphone the entire time that you are in the bathroom, your hands are unable to perform the complicated job of hand their washing.
So what I'm learning is that if you're a chemist & you're looking for a profitable breakthrough, make sure to lick your fingers like they're covered in Cheetoh dust.
I don’t like the idea of getting cancer so I always sugar drinks instead of artificial sugared drinks
I use Stevia, because it's the only one that doesn't play around with insulin levels.
Sucralose isn't good for your liver. As with any sweetener, it should be used in moderation.
Sorry, it does for folks like me, but seems inconsistant from person to person in my view. It causes my pancreas (when used for tea, etc) to spit out enormous amounts of insulin in me. I get a horrid drop in SBG and have to run for the recovery solution PDQ. Yet, many folks I know tolerate it well. I do tolerate it "okay" as long as it's mixed with protein and complex carbs. I only can use saccharine in fluids and things that dont have a balance of protein/complex carbs /fats.
@@patslouka915 everyone is different. Speaking of which, tea It's self-care affect insulin resistance and may lower blood sugar.
No artificial sweetener here. Everything used in this house is derived from sugar cane, sugar beets, or fruit. Its one thing to have medicines derived from weird places... like coal tar... most medicines aren't consumed on a daily basis. I just don't think you should be putting something in your body that that doesn't have an organic equivalent. Not to mention, the consumption of artificial sweeteners is actually linked to an increase is obesity, not the decrease when looking at an overall population. In population studies, its shown that consuming artificial sweeteners inflates our sense of what is actually sweet and we end up craving and eating sweeter and sweeter foods... so less and less in the way of veggies and even fruit as natural sweetness becomes almost imperceptible.
Another Cheddar video NOT about NYC!? That's two in a row!
I was too busy jamming on the background music I didn't catch a single word. Sorry.
I love Splenda. It’s the closest thing to sugar’s taste in my opinion. Sweet n low and equal are too artificial tasting.
Frfr when I go to Starbucks or most coffee places the drink I order is already sweet enough and I don't use any sugar
Ok so the take away is don't wash your hands and lick your fingers. Alright lol
I’ve been using Splenda for years. Mostly in my coffee. I don’t sweeten my iced tea.
I remember when cyclamates were allowed in the US. The soft drink Tab had it, and Tab was so good. Then the ban, and Tab is awful now.
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It's still available in Canada, here it's the stuff found in Sweet N' Low instead of saccharin
Some people use honey pot ants. Just take a 2 of those ants and squeeze the contents into your drink. There you go, ... a good alternative to artificial sweeteners.
Isn’t that functionally just sugar though? Much like honey?
@@kaitlyn__L Yes they are. Fact is there is sugar in everything as industries add sugar to everything to extend shelf life and various unprocessed foods have sugar in different forms that break down and become sugar in the body. However with some self control one does not need to add more sugar. Besides most artificial sugars still cause diabetes, ulcers and cancers.
Then again there is already cancer causing micro plastics in the air, soil that plants absorb, meat, in bottled and tap water. So cancer will still occur.
@@guardianoffire8814 yeah my comment wasn’t an argument for artificial sweeteners. Just wondering what the utility in squeezing ants is, versus harvesting honey or refining cane sugar.
Here in the U.K. most supermarkets sell there own home brand of sweeteners I’ve tried them all and can tell no difference to the top brands
I hate anything sweet. The only sweet things I eat are oranges and I prefer the sour ones.
Moral of the story: always lick your fingers after handling chemicals in a lab 👍
OK, I have to know more about the little hand-cranked sugar hoist at 2:35! I want one!
Artificial sugars give me a headache. I never understood them and they don’t taste good.
I can't stand the taste of any artificial sweetener. give me sugar or give me death. Hehe ironic statement anyone?
A I know you sweet life of my sweet tea but I usually use Stevia instead of Splenda or sweet life my hom
Good information, but she needs to speak slower and not tail off at the end of a phrase- couldn't understand lots
how many great findings have we missed out on because we washed our hands??
Saccharin tastes like absolute garbage! Splenda is about the only one that tastes okay even
Im diabetic and always use sucralose. It's the only sweetener without that shitty aftertaste
I grew up with Sweet'n'low, because that's what my dad used in his coffee and iced tea. I'm still nostalgic for it, but nowadays I try to use allulose, or, occasionally small amounts of table sugar. Taught myself to like coffee with just milk. Stevia is okay in iced tea. Cut sodas out of my life except for special occasions. Not gonna lie, it kinda sucks, but hopefully it'll be worthwhile in the long run.
Real men drink their coffee black.
FWIW lactose is much less sweet for the same calorific/carb/sugar content, so if you’re making coffees milkier than you might with sugar, that may or may not be backfiring. But if you kept a consistent amount of milk either way that is a reduction for sure. (If you already knew this, feel free to ignore me lol)
How's allulose btw? Like does it taste as clean as sugar does?
@@loganwolv3393 It's good. I'd say it's 90% as good as sugar. There's no weird after taste. It's a bit less sweet, that's pretty much it.
Do you use artificial sweeteners in your coffee? If so, do you wash your hands before or after?
The amount of scientist randomly licking their hands had me concerned
Horrified by the way you tore the packet at the very end, WTF 😩
Why wouldnt you just use suggur and like go out or hit the gym for like an hour a week
Because Americans love everything artificial
Except for lab grown meat apparently
Ideally, the sweetest foods/drinks we are consuming would be from fruits and vegetables. Arguably, having a moderate dose of artificial sweetener is better than having a bunch of added sugar.
It isn't even arguably, there's decades worth of research showing that there's nothing dangerous about artificial sweeteners. Most of the scares comes from singular studies with at most highly marginal effects, which are then not possible to replicate in follow-up studies.
These substances are among the most studied food additives and if there was danger we'd in all likelyhood discovered it by now.
Sugar on the other hand have a long sordid list of risks associated with it, too long to mention here.
TL;DR Coke Zero > regular Coke
@@user-kb8rc5vq2i I agree 100%, as I consume artificial sweeteners. A lot of the supposed negatives are pure correlation vs causation. Most people who consume artificial sweeteners are either doing other things that compromise long term health, or they are conscious of their health. Pretty much the only people I see drink diet soda consistently is either overweight people, or fit people