What is erythritol?

erythritol is natural sugar alcohol, a type of sweetener used in food without sugar. Like all sugar alcohols, it is less sweet and lower in calories than sucrose and does not support tooth decay. Rubber and candies made of erythritol rather than sugar are better for oral health.

Erythritol is 70% as sweet as sugar, even if it has a similar taste. It is virtually non -caloric and some countries call it a pack of food. In the United States, food and drug management requires erythritol to be marked as 0.2 calories per gram. Due to low sweetness, erythritol is often combined in foods with artificial sweetener. The artificial sweetener causes the product to be sweeter, while sugar alcohol masks the unpleasant taste of an artificial sweetener.

While most alcohol sugar can cause stomach side effects such as diarrhea and flatulence when they are consumed in large quantities, erythritol is not because it is absorbed into the bloodshed in the small intestine and excretingis in the urine. Although erythritol can cause a laxative effect if too much is consumed, the amount that would cause such a problem is higher than the person would probably consume at one session.

erythritol, as well as other sugar alcohols, has a cooling effect when dissolved in water. This can increase the taste and feeling of something like mint rubber, but may taste odd in other products such as icing. When erythritol is combined with fats such as butter or cocoa butter, the cooling effect can cause a wax texture. Another potential problem with erythritol is that it does not attract water that can cause faster pastry made of sugar alcohol. It also tends to crystallize.

Erythritol is often combined with other ingredients to make sucrose more mimic in taste, texture and other properties. Inulin, type of carbohydrates that naturally occurIn some plants and it is used as a substitute for sugar and fat, is often used in combination with erythritol. It has an effect on heating in combination with water, which helps to abolish the effect of erythritol cooling. Isomalt and glycerin, two other sugar alcohols, also have properties that work well in combination with the properties of erythritol.