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1 HN user recommended this between 2023 and 2025, in 4 comments.
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> erythritol is naturally produced by your body
I often see this being used as an excuse to say that because we produce it, it isn't bad for you. Thing is that we produce it in tiny tiny amounts... then we take a spoonful of 'monk fruit' and add it to our coffee. There's nothing 'natural' about that.
> If you’re worried about erythritol, it’s pretty easy to avoid.
Not really. Just a random google...
"MONK FRUIT IN THE RAW"
https://www.amazon.com/Natural-Sweetener-Erythritol-Sugar-Fr...
Look at the first item on the list, it is a bag of erythritol, packaged to be 'monk fruit'.
Almost every single 'monk fruit' product out there is a bag of erythritol. Look at the shelf in your local grocery store. Eventually, people just give up and buy the bag since they have been told 'sugar' is bad.
That's the real tragedy here.
Exactly!
Example:
https://www.amazon.com/Natural-Sweetener-Erythritol-Sugar-Fr...
Look at the list of ingredients.
Stevia (and many of these substitutes) are full of erythritol, which is recently in the news as questionable [0].
Some of them even market themselves as things like 'Monk Fruit'... but erythritol is the first ingredient [1].
[0] https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/27/health/zero-calorie-sweetener...
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Natural-Sweetener-Erythritol-Sugar-Fr...
My problem with monk fruit extracts is that they tend to be full of erythritol (even listing them as the first ingredient [0]), which tends to wreck my stomach. I was in a super market once and not a single product on the shelf was pure monk fruit.
[0] https://www.amazon.com/RAW-Natural-Sweetener-Erythritol-Suga...