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Two mixtures of common food additives, including aspartame, sucralose, xanthan & guar gums, modified starches, carrageenan and citric acid, are linked with slightly increased risk of type II diabetes, per French cohort study of more than 100,000 adults

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Two mixtures of common food additives, including aspartame, sucralose, xanthan & guar gums, modified starches, carrageenan and citric acid, are linked with slightly increased risk of type II diabetes, per French cohort study of more than 100,000 adults

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Researchers assess the link between type II diabetes and common food additives.

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Credit: Mathilde Touvier (CC-BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Two mixtures of common food additives, including aspartame, sucralose, xanthan & guar gums, modified starches, carrageenan and citric acid, are linked with slightly increased risk of type II diabetes, per French cohort study of more than 100,000 adults

 

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Article title: Food additive mixtures and type 2 diabetes incidence: Results from the NutriNet-Santé prospective cohort

Author countries: France

Funding: see manuscript

Journal

PLOS Medicine

DOI

10.1371/journal.pmed.1004570

Method of Research

Observational study

Subject of Research

People

COI Statement

Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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