{"id":50515,"date":"2026-11-10T14:34:51","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T13:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/10\/are-rare-sugars-like-allulose-actually-healthy\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T14:34:51","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T13:34:51","slug":"are-rare-sugars-like-allulose-actually-healthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/10\/are-rare-sugars-like-allulose-actually-healthy\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Rare Sugars Like Allulose Actually Healthy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are rare sugars like allulose a healthy alternative to traditional sweeteners?<\/p>\n<p>Allulose is a kind of low-calorie sugar that <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/32117915\/\">exists<\/a> naturally in very small quantities but is now industrially produced as a commercial sweetener. It\u2019s said to <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/31581594\/\">have<\/a> advantages that make it comparable to erythritol as a sugar substitute. It\u2019s also said to <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/32708827\/\">have<\/a> anti-diabetic effects, but that study was on obese mice. Allulose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S1756464619303536\">decreases<\/a> LDL cholesterol levels in hamsters fed a high-fat diet and is said to <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/31845524\/\">have<\/a> a substantial impact on obesity in lard-munching mice, but what about men and women?<\/p>\n<p>In a petri dish, allulose <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s12257-019-0352-7\">inhibits<\/a> fat cell precursors from maturing into fat cells and reduces the amount of fat accumulation within fat cells. Below are before-and-after pictures when regular sugar was replaced with allulose; the fat is stained red. You can also check out the photos at 0:56 in my video <a href=\"https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/video\/is-allulose-a-healthy-sweetener\/\">Is Allulose a Healthy Sweetener?<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The researchers <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s12257-019-0352-7\">concluded<\/a> that allulose might be a promising sugar substitute for an anti-obesity diet, but you don\u2019t know until you put it to the test.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/blog\/are-rare-sugars-like-allulose-actually-healthy\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are rare sugars like allulose a healthy alternative to traditional sweeteners? Allulose is a kind of low-calorie sugar that exists naturally in very small quantities but is now industrially produced as a commercial sweetener. It\u2019s said to have advantages that make it comparable to erythritol as a sugar substitute. It\u2019s also said to have anti-diabetic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":50516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[3199,6825,3011,2909,3185,2977,2891,6829,6832,2911,2901,36,108,3017,7053,1471,6824,2264],"class_list":["post-50515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-aging","tag-allulose","tag-animal-studies","tag-blood-sugar","tag-body-fat","tag-cholesterol","tag-diabetes","tag-erythritol","tag-high-fructose-corn-syrup","tag-insulin","tag-longevity","tag-mixtv","tag-news","tag-obesity","tag-prediabetes","tag-sugar","tag-sweeteners","tag-weight-loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}