WASHINGTON: A popular non-nutritive sweetener known as erythritol may be an effective and human-safe insecticide, a U.S. study said Wednesday.
Erythritol, the main component of the sweetener Truvia, was toxic to Drosophila melanogaster fruit flies in a dose-dependent manner, according to the study published in the U.S. journal PLOS ONE.
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