Substituting non-nutritive sweeteners or water for sugar-sweetened beverages shows similar performance for health markers, with non-nutritive sweeteners potentially being slightly better for improving adiposity.

“Water and non-nutritive sweetener, beverages performed similar. But there were better than sugar-sweetened beverages, obviously. So they then based on-- a network meta analysis is where you can compare to things that didn't get compared directly. So there's not many studies comparing NNS versus water directly. But if you have a common comparator, so if you compare A to B and B gets compared to C, you compare A to C based on how they interacted with B. Butchering it a little, bit but that's the crux of a network meta analysis. So they looked at NNS versus water and found that actually, in NNS was slightly better for improving adiposity.”