Effects of Allulose and Erythritol Consumption on a High-Fat Diet

Long-term consumption of erythritol, a widely used sugar substitute, has been associated with increased risks of thrombosis and cardiometabolic diseases. In this study, we investigated the effects and mechanisms of allulose in mitigating these risks compared to erythritol using the clusterProfiler tool. Since a high-fat diet (HFD) is known to enhance platelet aggregation, we compared the pathways related to these processes between groups of mice treated with allulose and those treated with erythritol. While erythritol exacerbated HFD-induced increased platelet aggregation, allulose treatment significantly reduced it. The groups consisted of a normal diet group (ND, with 10% of calories derived from fat), a high-fat diet group (HFD, with 40% of calories from fat), a high-fat diet with 5% allulose supplementation (ALLU), and a high-fat diet with 5% erythritol supplementation (ERY). Total RNA was extracted from C57BL/6J mice that have been induced to obesity via a high-fat diet to investigate the effects of D-allulose and erythritol ingested with a high-fat diet on the liver.