The Claim

In overweight and obese adults aged 25–50, consumption of sucralose in beverages over a 12-week period results in no systemic absorption, as evidenced by undetectable plasma levels in a subset of participants.

Source: 614-P: Effect of Non-nutritive Sweetener Sucralose on Cardiometabolic Risk Factors among Overweight and Obese Adults in India—A Randomized Clinical Trial

What the research says

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Supports
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Challenges
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In plain English

If you're overweight or obese and drink diet soda with sucralose for 12 weeks, your body doesn't absorb it — it just passes through, and doctors couldn't find any trace of it in the blood.

See the scientific wording

In overweight and obese adults aged 25–50, sucralose consumed in beverages for 12 weeks is not systemically absorbed, as plasma levels were undetectable in a subset of participants.

What the research says

1 study

  1. Study: 614-P: Effect of Non-nutritive Sweetener Sucralose on Cardiometabolic Risk Factors among Overweight and Obese Adults in India—A Randomized Clinical Trial

    The study gave overweight adults diet drinks with sucralose for 12 weeks and checked their blood — they found no sucralose in the blood, which means it didn’t get absorbed into their bodies, just like the claim says.

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