I’m on a diet and I decided to buy zero calorie sweetener and decided to Use a lot of it and then after consuming i decided to read the ingredients and saw that it contained maltodextrin and I searched it up and it said that it can cause some bad side effects like weight gain or spike in blood. Im kinda worried because i consumed a lot of it and decided to throw it away because i didn’t want to consume any more of it. Is anything going to happen to me after consuming a lot of it?
Are you sure it’s maltodextrin? Because that is pure carbs, so it HAS calories and it’s also not a sweetener, as it’s not sweet at all. The stuff in your zero calories foods is more likely maltitol, a sweetener that’s one of the “better” sweeteners compared to aspartame or something but it can mess with your gut/stomach.
You may want to give erythritol a try, it seems to be the least harmful sweetener at this point, but it’s not exactly cheap
Unless you are a diabetic then nothing unless you are talking rather rediculous quantities. Maltodextrin is just a pure glucose chain that breaks apart into seperate glucose molecules in the intestines. Because it packs multiple glucose into a small package, and is 100% glucose (no fructose. Table sugar is 50% fructose), it will spike your blood glucose way more than table sugar. I’ve never understood how companies like Splenda get away with listing their sweetener as 0 calorie and healthier for diabetics while its not 0 calorie and indeed worse for diabetics.
If you consumed a rediculously large amount and are worried, call poison control.
All zero calorie stuff has claims that it causes weight gain/ diabetes/ what have you. this is due to to the correlation that people who use these products have these conditions. What they don’t tell you is that the reason they are using zero calorie sweeteners is because they are overweight/ at risk, and that’s whats causing the associated side effects, not the alternative sweeteners.
still, maltodextrin isn’t great or bad for you, its basically starch, and used in very low amounts in sweeteners, to the point where it wont have an effect on you.
I don’t know much about maltodextrin, but my personal rule of thumb is not to use anything other than pure stevia leaf extract, erythritol, or monk fruit sweetener. Always check the ingredients list, if there are other sweeteners added you can bet it’s like 90% cheap crap mixed in with the stuff you actually want. These three are the most devoid of negative effects (that we know of) and do not cause glycemic spikes.
At any rate, moderation is key and if you’re going to have dessert then HAVE DESSERT. Real sugar is the safest, and there’s nothing wrong with breaking it out for special occasions.
Anything in exaggeration is a problem and will harm. In using Maltodextrin serve/ consume what is recommended on the label.
Sometime ago I was reading a nutrition publication accredited by the academy of nutrition and dietetics. What they found is that, consumption of too many artificial sweetened beverages consumed by children, led to the same effect on their waist line as table sugar (cane sugar). So their conclusion was, follow the serving size, drink more water (flavor carbonated comes in variety even with probiotics now) and eat fruit whole preferably fibrous to improve overall health, and in their case, prevent obese children.
So! Eat less of it. Tips to reduce: begin lower serving sizes, then when lower sizes conquered, choose less meal inclusion, then after this is maintained, include other carbonate unsweetened beverages, begin introducing water with meals even if 1/2 c. Ultimately, you want to have a smooth transition, prevent (if any) withdrawals, and not have a poor conception of it just because the market speaks of it negatively. Maltodextrin like any sugar is bad when we cannot control it by proper portion control.
Hello, no sweetener in itself is good when its consumption is abused.
Maltodextrin is like a polymer derived from glucose because it is a product of the hydrolysis of starch, so it is not true that it is zero calories.
It is also used as an additive or bad bad, so that you are addicted to its consumption.
My humble advice as a nutrition student is, if you want to have a good diet, lead a healthier life and lose fat, do not give importance to calories because calories do not matter, what matters is that you know how much you consume and its quality. It is not healthy to be aware of calories because you can develop anorexia, bulimia, any disease of eating disorder.
Of course it is not good to use sugar, but neither is it a sweetener because in a certain way it has a very similar effect on our brain.
I would avoid any sweetener except in a preparation and that is little, I would start consuming the infusions such as coffee, tea, maté in its natural version without sugar or for some with a bitter taste. Note that the coffee is not roasted because that means it is with sugar.
The sweeteners that you could use for these certain preparations are xylitol, erythrole, and stevia in their pure version.