robert@fm
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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 2
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/0/22653786
Interesting article, but it's strange the way it talks of xylitol as if there were no other polyols out there — and even stranger that it doesn't even hint of the massive (sit-)downside of polyols which many of us know about the hard way. 😱 Heaven help anyone (especially on metformin) who has a curry with plenty of baked beans, and finishes it off with a polyol-sweetened dessert — especially one based on figs or prunes. 🙄
Polyols are fine in things such as the sugar-free herbal throat lozenges I bought earlier this year, as those are sucked one at a time with a long interval between them, but not anything else.
My mind was also boggled by the statement that "dextrose is a form of glucose". Surely dextrose is glucose, just as the left-handed form of the same molecule is called levulose or (more commonly) fructose.
Interesting article, but it's strange the way it talks of xylitol as if there were no other polyols out there — and even stranger that it doesn't even hint of the massive (sit-)downside of polyols which many of us know about the hard way. 😱 Heaven help anyone (especially on metformin) who has a curry with plenty of baked beans, and finishes it off with a polyol-sweetened dessert — especially one based on figs or prunes. 🙄
Polyols are fine in things such as the sugar-free herbal throat lozenges I bought earlier this year, as those are sucked one at a time with a long interval between them, but not anything else.
My mind was also boggled by the statement that "dextrose is a form of glucose". Surely dextrose is glucose, just as the left-handed form of the same molecule is called levulose or (more commonly) fructose.