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What is XYLITOL?

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What is XYLITOL?

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Xylitol is a natural Sugar-Alcohol produced in small amounts by the human body and found naturally in many fruits, berries, vegetables, and mushrooms. Sometimes called “Birch Sugar”, Xylitol is presently mainly made commercially in Finland by chopping up and rendering “xylan” from the structural wood fiber of birch trees. Present research is under way for other commercially viable sources in the US such as corn husk (see “Xylitol in the News”). Pure Xylitol is a white crystalline substance that looks and tastes like sugar. It is just as sweet as sugar and as bulk sweetener, can be used spoon for spoon in recipes and cooking in place of sugar. On food labels, Xylitol is classified broadly as a carbohydrate and more narrowly as a polyol. Because Xylitol is only slowly absorbed and partially utilized, a lower glycemic value and a reduced calorie claim is allowed: 2.4 calories per gram or 40% less than sugar. Xylitol has been used in foods since the 1960s. It is a popular sweetener for the

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Xylitol is a natural sugar. It is derived from sources such as fruits, vegetables, corn stalks/husks/cobs, birch wood, nutshells, etc. Xylitol is classified as a sugar alcohol and small amounts are produced in the human body. Xylitol has been shown in numerous clinical studies to provide substantial health benefits to the user. The chemical structure of xylitol prevents bacteria from metabolising and digesting the xylitol after ingesting it, reducing the production of by-products that enable the bacteria to adhere to nasal tissues.

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Xylitol is one of a group of sugar substitutes known as polyols. Others in the same group include sorbitol and maltitol, which have 6 carbon structures (and can be metabolised by harmful bacteria). However, xylitol has a unique 5 carbon structure which is metabolised only by friendly bacteria. Xylitol is a sweetener that occurs naturally. It can be found in berries and other fruits, some vegetables and in the woody fibres of birch tree bark and corn cobs. It is even produced by the human body as a part of normal metabolism.

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Xylitol is a sugar-free sweetener derived from natural sources, and is also produced in the human body as a by-product of a normal metabolism1.

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