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2. 10 Sugar Alternatives to Try This Year - AOL

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   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 ...

3. Are artificial sweeteners worse than sugar? How they ... - AOL

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   Sugar alcohols include erythritol, xylitol, maltitol, mannitol and sorbitol. ... Some sugar substitutes taste better than others, but the consensus is that regular sugar tastes better overall ...

4. Common low-calorie sweetener linked to heart attack and ... - AOL

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   “Xylitol is cheaper to make than cane sugar and so more and more keeps getting incorporated as a sugar substitute into food. Some 12-ounce drinks that use xylitol as a major artificial sweetener ...

5. Xylitol - Wikipedia

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   Humans absorb xylitol more slowly than sucrose, and xylitol supplies 40% fewer calories than an equal mass of sucrose. [15] Xylitol has about the same sweetness as sucrose, [15] but is sweeter than similar compounds like sorbitol and mannitol. [10] Xylitol is stable enough to be used in baking, [18] but because xylitol and other polyols are ...

6. Sugar substitute - Wikipedia

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   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.

7. Isomalt - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

8. Common low-calorie sweetener may be riskier for the heart ...

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   Erythritol and xylitol are sugar alcohols that are sweet like sugar but with far fewer calories. Erythritol is often mixed with another sweetener, stevia, and xylitol is often found in gum ...

9. Which artificial sweetener is the safest choice? - AOL

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   In recent research, cardiologist Dr. Stanley Hazen at the Cleveland Clinic found that the high concentrations of the sugar alcohol sweeteners xylitol and erythritol may cause the platelets in the ...