[hinkley]

Sugar alcohols are especially bad for this. I fried my GI one year and it was largely down to developing a gum chewing habit at a time when sugar alcohols were in almost all gum brands. You can’t process them, but bad gut bacteria can.

[MengerSponge]

It sucks so much, because xylitol appears to be very good for your teeth but bad for your heart:

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/xylitol...