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SUBMITTER: Uebanso T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5490539 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Uebanso Takashi T Ohnishi Ai A Kitayama Reiko R Yoshimoto Ayumi A Nakahashi Mutsumi M Shimohata Takaaki T Mawatari Kazuaki K Takahashi Akira A
Nutrients 20170601 6
<b>Abstract</b><b>:</b> Non-caloric artificial sweeteners (NASs) provide sweet tastes to food without adding calories or glucose. NASs can be used as alternative sweeteners for controlling blood glucose levels and weight gain. Although the consumption of NASs has increased over the past decade in Japan and other countries, whether these sweeteners affect the composition of the gut microbiome is unclear. In the present study, we examined the effects of sucralose or acesulfame-K ingestion (at most ...[more]