Yes, Tab. Exactly.
Which other diet sodas were identified as having "germs that love diet soda"?
The studies show effects for trehalose and saccharine. No diet soda contains trehalose, only Tab contains saccharine.
Any effect from the non-nutritive sweeteners in other diet sodas did not appear in the studies, so they focused on saccharine.
There may be more subtle effects from those sweeteners, or future effects from those sweeteners, but we haven't found them yet, extrapolation from a general principle not withstanding.
"Germs that love Tab" wouldn't draw as many clicks as the current title.
Someone posted this above.
https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2008/04/17/Coca-Cola-w...
Supposedly diet coke from fountains contains saccharine
The point isn’t about one specific chemical, but rather the principal that the prevalence of non-nutritious, edible chemicals seriously augments the dark, warm controlled environments of our guts.
Nutrient capture as a whole, shifts in a way that, at the bottom of the tract, there are chemicals that humans leave unused, but which are still useful to certain opportunistic organisms.
If only those chemicals are available, and normal food is absent, every member of the environment is forced to deal with scarcity, and the strongest survive, and fill the void if they can.
If those organisms are forced to opperate with greater efficiency, then their capacity to deal with adversity offers them an advantage as an invasive species, and they will prevail in general, everywhere, not just in the adverse scenario.