Study: Artificial sweeteners toxic to digestive gut bacteria

Re:Study: Artificial sweeteners toxic to digestive gut bacteria by bb101 on Thursday October 04, 2018 @10:08AM (#18139995)

Interestingly, peanut butter is near the bottom of the scale for being insulinogenic (the food insulin index). That means it's less likely to be put away as fat according to The Personalized Diet by Drs Segal and Elinav [1]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/1478918802

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Re:Study: Artificial sweeteners toxic to digestive gut bacteria by unstuckdev on Thursday October 04, 2018 @10:26AM (#18140143)

Does this factor in the added sugar in most peanut butters? I can't find any without it around here.

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Re:Study: Artificial sweeteners toxic to digestive gut bacteria by XorNot on Thursday October 04, 2018 @10:47AM (#18140361)

Switch to unsweetened, unsalted peanut butter. It's amazing - after 2 weeks I stopped noticing the difference. The amount of sugar in most peanut butter is absurd.

Once you kick the sugar taste, oh wow do you realize its got a much more interesting and involved flavor.

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Re:Study: Artificial sweeteners toxic to digestive gut bacteria by Dirlewanger on Thursday October 04, 2018 @10:49AM (#18140385)

It probably does. Colloquially when one says peanut butter, people think of Jiff, which can be best described as a disgusting peanut-flavored spread product. Go with natural peanut butter (i.e. where the only ingredient is peanuts and it must be stirred) and you're all good.

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Re:Study: Artificial sweeteners toxic to digestive gut bacteria by astura on Thursday October 04, 2018 @11:23AM (#18140718)

Peanut butter without sugar is labeled as "natural peanut butter" in the US.

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Re:Study: Artificial sweeteners toxic to digestive gut bacteria by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Thursday October 04, 2018 @10:41AM (#18140300)

I'll keep this in mind to help reduce the guilt I feel after eating an entire jar with a spoon.

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