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by Karrot_Kream
719 days ago
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Xylitol is not an artificial sweetener, it's a sugar alcohol. Sugar alcohols are generally derived by processing natural ingredients. Xylitol is made by extracting the sugar alcohol from beech wood. Sugar alcohols can cause bloating and diarrhea due to osmotic effects [1] and can have laxative properties for some. I'm a bit sensitive to sugar alcohols myself. Look I don't think this kind of comment adds any value to this discussion. There's a linked paper here and it's useful to discuss it. But humans all eat food, and if we start chiming into every nutrition article with random anecdotes about what we eat, then the purpose of keeping HN a high quality site goes away. The science is hard enough to get straight, adding random anecdotes lowers whatever signal we have. [1]: https://www.ynhh.org/services/nutrition/sugar-alcohol.aspx |
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