Food and drinks are used for energy. If you intake something that’s 0 calories how does your body process that? Is it still used as enegery? Is it just discarded by our body?
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Some “zero calorie sweeteners” aren’t literally zero calorie, they still contain energy in them like sugar or other foods. The difference is our bodies cannot metabolize them to extract that energy, so yes, it essentially just passes through the digestive tract and is discarded.
There are some suggestions that these substances can affect the gut bacteria, or even that just tasting sweetness without getting the acompanying calories can change the way your body metabolizes things, but that’s another conversation.
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