eli5: why are artificial sugars bad for my blood sugar, when they aren’t actually glucose or fructose?

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eli5: why are artificial sugars bad for my blood sugar, when they aren’t actually glucose or fructose?

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There’s no such thing as “artificial sugars”. If it’s a sugar, it will have an effect on your blood sugar. If it’s an artificial sweetener, it won’t. Artificial sweeteners are by and large not metabolized so they just get excreted by your body unchanged.

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