However, behind the "beautiful exclamation point" and the large-scale advertisement, can this little chewing gum really lose weight?
If you can lose body fat by just moving your mouth and chewing gum, it is welcome to anyone.
However, in terms of xylitol's gentle slimming, it is said that "chewing gum can not only refresh your breath, but also quickly lose weight and relax your bowels, 5 kg, 10 kg, 20 kg!" Even "chew off a catty of meat every day", such amazing weight loss effect, do you believe it? In this regard, the reporter conducted an investigation and found that the so-called weight loss chewing gum is full of doubts.
Four major doubts
Query 1: The batch number patent is false.
Open several metropolis newspapers, and the advertisements of xylitol chewing gum under the banner of losing weight are overwhelming and eye-catching. But the reporter searched for a long time before he found the batch number and patent number with a very small font in the bottom corner. However, these three seemingly standardized and reassuring "identity cards", including the patent number, Su Weishi's words and the name of the health food supervisor, are all fake.
When the reporter called the national patent administration department, Jiangsu US Food and Drug Administration and Beijing US Food and Drug Administration for verification, it was found that all the batch numbers of this chewing gum did not exist. When the reporter expressed his wish to join and asked to see a copy of the approval of this chewing gum, it was rejected by xylitol.
Query 2: The name of Hong Kong certification is false.
This kind of chewing gum, which is popular in Europe, America, South Korea, Japan, Singapore and other places, comes from Hong Kong, but it is still impossible to verify whether it is really produced in Hong Kong. The reporter looked through the advertisements published in the media and found only one certification mark of the Hong Kong Healthy Food Association. It is understood that this association does exist in Hong Kong, but there was a problem when the reporter wanted to further verify it.
When the reporter asked to know the details of this Hong Kong agency certification, the relevant personnel explained that this certification was only conducted by the Hong Kong Healthy Food Association for this chewing gum as a green pollution-free food, not for its weight loss effect.
Question 3: How to lose weight with this food?
Whether from the advertisement of chewing gum or the telephone consultation of reporters, the person in charge of gentle xylitol stressed that it is only a food, but it can achieve the effect of losing weight. However, it is such a food, but it is displayed in the counter of health care products in pharmacies and sold in the form of health care products.
The reporter learned from the US Food and Drug Administration in Beijing and the Beijing Municipal Administration for Industry and Commerce that if it is only pure food, then it is not allowed to carry out any publicity with therapeutic or health care functions, and it is against the regulations to put on a weight loss signboard; If it is sold in the health care counter of a pharmacy, it must be qualified as a health care product, which means that there must be a "blue straw hat" health care product logo on the package and bottle, but the packaging of chewing gum has been searched everywhere and this logo has not been found.
In other words, chewing gum, which belongs to food, promotes the effect of slimming under the banner of health care products. According to the industry and commerce department, even for health care products, the propaganda content of "losing one catty a day" or "losing five jins, 10 catty, getting 20 jins faster" should be classified as false propaganda.
Question 4: B2UP is not a leptin enzyme at all.
The main component of xylitol is the leptin enzyme of B2UP, which looks professional and credible. But in the investigation, the reporter found that B2UP and leptin are basically two substances.
B2UP is not the abbreviation of anything, but the name of a Japanese company that produces breast enhancement chewing gum. However, there is no such word as leptin enzyme in medical and health products. Precisely speaking, it should be leptin. Leptin is the product of obesity gene, which is mainly produced by adipose tissue and plays a role in appetite control, fat metabolism and weight regulation. The role of leptin is to reduce appetite, increase energy consumption, and lead to more fat burning. Obesity is caused by leptin deficiency due to obesity gene mutation.
Therefore, leptin is a self-produced substance, not an extract mentioned by mild xylitol, and it does not achieve slimming effect by decomposing sugar and starch.
Experts say
The reporter saw in several pharmacies that gently sell xylitol that this kind of chewing gum is being sold in the form of buy one get three free. A salesperson of a large pharmacy told reporters that although xylitol is cheap, its sales volume is not good. Some women feel dizzy and sick after trying to buy it, and have not achieved the goal of losing weight.
In this regard, Professor Sun, chairman of the Food Nutrition and Safety Committee of China Health Products Association, said that there is no scientific basis for chewing gum to lose weight.
Sugar can only supplement nutrition.
No matter how fancy xylitol is, it still contains sugar. As long as it contains sugar, it will not have any weight loss effect.
Professor Sun said that sugar can only replenish nutrients lost by the body to a certain extent, but it cannot decompose and lose fat. The traditional Chinese medicine ingredients mentioned in this chewing gum, such as tortoise shell flower and cassia seed, only clean the stomach and promote defecation. It is impossible to say that it can lose weight, or even lose a catty a day.
Chewing too much will suppress appetite.
On the one hand, chewing gum does have a slimming effect. Professor Sun said that if you chew too much gum, your mouth will feel uncomfortable, disgusting and you don't want to eat. This disguised form of appetite suppression can really make people control their diet, thus achieving the goal of losing weight.
However, this "weight loss" is not fat, but muscle.
Fat is not sugar+starch.
The propagandist of xylitol solemnly said that "human fat is mainly composed of sugar and starch in food". For this theory, Professor Sun said that this is a completely wrong concept.
She said that fat is formed by the decomposition and transformation of carbohydrates, and there are many substances that synthesize fat, such as glucose, chyle granule protein similar to fat in food, and ultra-low density lipoprotein formed by liver. It can be synthesized after entering fat cells.