Artificial Sweeteners
#372732 - 02/23/16 10:14 AM
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Hello! This is my first post, but I have been reading the forums for a few months and I just read "The First Year" and have been incorporating soluble fiber and limiting fat, meat, and dairy. I think I am on the right track thanks to all of Heather's advice!
Today's newsletter was very interesting an informative. I have been using Truvia for a while (a Stevia based sweetner) and I think it's been great for me. However, I noticed, by looking up the ingredients on wikipedia, that it is made in part with Erythritol, a sugar alcohol. I guess this means I should switch to a pure stevia alternative?
Does anyone have a Stevia brand they can recommend that is not made with Erythritol?
Thanks!
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Erythritol is a 4-carbon sugar alcohol that unlike other sugar alcohols (sorbitol, manitol, etc) is easily and completely absorbed in the small intestine. It is low FODMAP. It never gets to the colon like other sugar alcohols were it can be fermented by colonic bacteria to produce gas etc worsening IBS symptoms. Here is a great article on this topic
Erythritol
And here is a scientific article that gives a lot more details published in the prestigious journal Nature
"Consumption of 20 and 35 g erythritol by healthy volunteers, in a liquid, is tolerated well, without any symptoms. At the highest level of erythritol intake (50 g), only a significant increase in borborygmi and nausea was observed, whereas xylitol intake at this level induced a significant increase in watery faeces."
Gastrointestinal tolerance of erythritol and xylitol ingested in a liquid
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I recently bought some white cake with white frosting and lemon ribbons on top. After I had a problem, I read the label and found out that it contained SORBITOL! Never again will I buy this product!
But my husband ate it and was fine since he does not have IBS! 
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