How can you do an video on the pros and cons of artificial sweeteners and not mention TEETH ! The key benefit of artificial sweeteners is that they don't cause tooth decay . They are particularly useful in drinks because of the frequency of of drinking during the day; it is the frequency of sugars, not the quantity of sugars that causes decay. Huge, huge omission. And yes I am a dentist.

You only discussed a few nonnutritive sweeteners. How about erythritol, monk fruit, and allulose?

I remember as a teenager trying to give up sugar in my tea. It took weeks of reducing by small amounts before my taste buds adapted and I could tolerate drinking tea without any added sugar, fortunately I didn't use sweeteners as a substitute and even now I believe they are best avoided.

My Father had 1 spoon of sugar and 1 saccharine in his tea in the beliefe that if either were harmful he'd have only consumed half! Good try Dad!

Just don't sweeten everything!

A lot of talk but no clarity at all...........

I moved from aspartame etc to Stevia in coffee and drink water, preferring sparkling with meals. When I eat sweet products I check the labels carefully. And note through my WW app the points. However, I struggle with my weight for a range of hormone reasons and have for 26 years (over half my life). Now in the peri menopause. Surely we need to be recommending realistic ways forward? Clinical trials are all well and good but aren’t real life?

Drink waters. Chemically sweetened foods and drinks should be clearly labelled (like cigarette boxes)

Everyone knows what we mean when we say artificial sweeteners and we don't mean sugar alcohols and we don't mean stevia. We mean Aspartame, Sucralose, Acesulfame Potassium, etc... sweeteners they don't occur in nature.

Why was stevia illegal?! 🤨

I saw an IBS specialist... and he was horrified when I said that I was drinking around a litre of diet lemonade each day... He said that wine or beer would be better!

I wish that sweetners would be discussed individually instead of lumped into broad groups. Chemically, they are very different and act differently in the body.

Fascinating pod cast. Please do a longer and more detailed one on this subject.

Organic chemists DID taste their products! At that time they did not realize the danger (maybe some did, but it was part of the evaluation process). Many died of stomach cancer....no wonder...(I have a BS in Chemistry. No, I did not taste the product, by the time I studied it, safety was more highly esteemed. My organic professor did die of stomach cancer...)

This is a second zoe video were one of them have said I'd never heard of that before when I was aware of it, and I spend most of my day driving a bus, not researching this subject.

Love your back and forths...so conversational yet enlightening. Any plans for prospective research involving the Predict I and II cohorts? It would be fascinating to see over time how

Love this! Thanks for your content!!

Great discussion and an even-handed approach to an important topic. Artificial sweeteners are probably the lesser of two evils, and there seems to be plenty of evidence that no one should consume any sugary drinks (and I include fruit juices in that mix). It's important to remember that the milligram amounts of the artificial sweeteners are extremely small, so biochemical effects in the gut or body seem less likely for that reason alone. Avoiding both may be ideal, but as the engineers like to say, "the perfect is the enemy of the good".

Thank for the information.

Great show content and guest