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Can sugar be eaten together with alternative sweeteners at the same time?

Let’s say fruit yoghurt that has sugar in it but then topped with a sugar free granola (sweetened with other alternatives like stevia)

This might be stupid but I wanted to know if it matters or if it would have any negative effect mixing different sugars together

Ty in advance!

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Answer

It’s my understanding that most artificial sweeteners still cause an insulin response as your body still thinks it’s going to have to metabolize sugar… Ideally just eat less sugar. If you are going to ingest artificial sweeteners I’ve been told it’s best also to have some form of sugar for your body to deal with so don’t just have insulin floating around and screwing up your feedback system (I’m not a doctor, obv, but that’s an overly simplified version of what I was able to piece together from a friend who is).

Interesting paper regarding this topic: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7014832/#:\~:text=Ingestion%20of%20these%20artificial%20sweeteners,activity%20due%20to%20insulin%20resistance.

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