{"id":3550,"date":"2023-03-02T05:42:49","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T00:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3550"},"modified":"2025-03-26T16:23:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T10:53:58","slug":"what-is-erythritol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-erythritol\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Erythritol?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The researchers have pointed out the following issues in the report\n<ul>\n<li>Long-term use of this particular artificial sweetener is associated with an increased risk of heart attack and stroke.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Erythritol <strong>made platelets easier to activate and form a clot<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>After ingestion, erythritol is <strong>poorly metabolised by the body<\/strong>.\u00a0 Instead, it goes into the bloodstream and leaves the body mainly through urine.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The human <strong>body creates low amounts of erythritol<\/strong> naturally, so any additional consumption can accumulate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is Erythritol?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Erythritol is a popular <strong>artificial sweetener<\/strong> that is widely available throughout the world.<\/li>\n<li>It is an organic compound &#8211; a naturally occurring, four-carbon sugar alcohol (or polyol).<\/li>\n<li>It is used as a food additive and sugar substitute.<\/li>\n<li>Erythritol is 60\u201370% as sweet as sucrose (table sugar).<\/li>\n<li>However, it is almost <strong>completely noncaloric<\/strong> and does not affect blood sugar or cause tooth decay.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Synthesis:<\/strong> It is synthesized from corn using enzymes and fermentation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a heart attack?<\/h3>\n<p>A heart attack (medically known as a myocardial infarction) is a deadly medical emergency where your heart muscle begins to die because it isn\u2019t getting enough blood flow. A blockage in the arteries that supply blood to your heart usually causes this.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/health-wellness\/can-artificial-sweeteners-in-your-low-cal-or-keto-diet-raise-the-risk-of-heart-attack-and-stroke-8472526\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Does your artificial sweetener have Erythritol? Study says it raises risk of heart attack and stroke<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erythritol is a popular artificial sweetener that is widely available throughout the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3551,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}