enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Is 'healthy candy' actually good for you? Experts discuss ...

   www.aol.com/news/healthy-candy-actually-good...

   Common sugar alcohols include: Xylitol. Erythritol. ... Whether a person has type one diabetes, where the body does not make insulin, or type two, where the body cannot effectively use insulin ...

3. 10 Sugar Alternatives to Try This Year - AOL

   www.aol.com/10-sugar-alternatives-try-165700546.html

   8. Xylitol. Type: Sugar alcohol. Potential benefits: Xylitol, sorbitol, and other sugar alcohols are low-calorie sweeteners that are usually 25% to 100% as sweet as sugar. Sugar alcohols don’t ...

4. Sugar substitute - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_substitute

   A sugar substitute is a food additive that provides a sweetness like that of sugar while containing significantly less food energy than sugar-based sweeteners, making it a zero-calorie (non-nutritive) [2] or low-calorie sweetener. Sugar substitute products are commercially available in various forms, such as small pills, powders and packets.

5. Sweetened beverage - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweetened_beverage

   There is a link between sugar-sweetened beverage consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus. [31] Type 2 diabetes is unlikely to be caused directly by sugar. [ 32 ] It is likely that weight gain caused by sugar-sweetened beverage consumption is what increases the risk of type 2 diabetes.

6. Xylitol - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylitol

   Xylitol occurs naturally in small amounts in plums, strawberries, cauliflower, and pumpkin; humans and many other animals make trace amounts during metabolism of carbohydrates. [10] Unlike most sugar alcohols, xylitol is achiral. [12] Most other isomers of pentane-1,2,3,4,5-pentol are chiral, but xylitol has a plane of symmetry.

7. Canadian health claims for food - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_health_claims_for...

   In one study in Belize done on 1277 school children of the mean age of 10.2 years, which were given gums with the contents of either xylitol, xylitol-sorbitol, sorbitol, or sucrose to chew under teachers' supervision daily. After a dental exam after 16, 28, and 40 months, the results showed the most significant reduction in dental caries by the ...

8. Isomalt - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isomalt

   Isomalt is widely used for the production of sugar-free candy, especially hard-boiled candy, because it resists crystallization much better than the standard combinations of sucrose and corn syrup. It is used in sugar sculpture for the same reason. [6] Isomalt can also be used as a plasticizer for high methoxyl pectin films. It reduces the ...

9. Here's the truth behind the mystery Dum Dums lollipop flavor

   www.aol.com/lifestyle/2017-06-15-heres-the-truth...

   More likely than not, you grew up with Dum Dums lollipops. The small, colorful sweets were probably always on display at the front desk of your doctor's office. You most definitely grabbed a blind ...