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Strong Opposition
This claim says that a food preservative called potassium sorbate kills off the good bacteria in your gut that calm down inflammation, but leaves the bad bacteria that cause inflammation alone—making your whole body more inflamed.
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Evidence from Studies
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Contradicting (2)
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The study found that when potassium sorbate is mixed with sugar, it can make the gut less healthy and cause more inflammation, but it didn’t show that it specifically kills good bacteria while leaving bad ones alone.
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The study found that a food preservative called potassium sorbate didn’t selectively kill good gut bacteria while leaving bad ones alone — instead, it messed up the gut a little, but the gut got better after stopping it, which is the opposite of what the claim says.
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