Question:
What is sugar alcohol?

I bought some Sugar Free POPSICLES and I guess I am not a too smart of a person, ( At least I was reading the ingredients not to dum huh) but it said Sugar =0 Grams and Sugar Alcohol=3 Grams. I have never heard of Sugar Alchol, so can any of you tell me what this is and can I have these kind of popsicles????? Thanks>>>>Jay Biller    — jay B. (posted on January 31, 2001)

January 31, 2001
Go ahead, if you like the way they taste. Trust yourself. Pop quiz on Friday. It's a group of sweeteners that we've all seen on our dietitic candy labels like hydrogenated starch, mannitol, sorbitol, xylitol, and a couple of others. They're chemically considered alcohols but are derived from sugar molecules. No, they are not intoxicating. If your label said "sugar alcohol", it meant that a combination was used, otherwise they would have been listed separately. Some are derived from some of the common sugars; lactose and maltose. Others are derived from fruits & even vegetables. I think it was actually carrots and lettuce. Yea, they can be used on low-carb diets or if you have diabetes (but you would've known that already). They're broken down slowly and don't require any insulin to do it. When they're broken down, what's not absorbed by your body gets turned into fatty acids. So don't eat a bag at a time to avoid a -possible- laxative effect. Even though they're carb free, they still have calories, but only a fraction's of sucrose. Then again, they're also less sweet.
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