Artificial sweeteners and cancer risk: Results from the NutriNet-Sante population-based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The food industry uses artificial sweeteners in a wide range of foods and beverages as alternatives to added sugars, for which deleterious effects on several chronic diseases are now well established. The safety of these food additives is debated, with conflicting findings regarding their role in the aetiology of various diseases. In particular, their carcinogenicity has been suggested by several experimental studies, but robust epidemiological evidence is lacking. Thus, our objective was to investigate the associations between artificial sweetener intakes (total from all dietary sources, and most frequently consumed ones: aspartame [E951], acesulfame-K [E950], and sucralose [E955]) and cancer risk (overall and by site).

Methods and findings

Overall, 102,865 adult

SUBMITTER: Debras C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8946744 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature