I just purchased a "Lite" Smoothie from Stonyfield Farms. I was trying to log in the calories into Fitday.com and was unable to because the protein/carb/calories did not tie. I contacted the company about their lable and was told (by the company) that the discrepancy was due to Erythritol, a sugar derivative that is produced by a fermentation process. I went on the website of the company that produces Erythritol Link to this site. What may be of interest to those of us with IBS/IBD is the following on how this ingredient is digested:
Quote: Digestive process for erythritol
Erythritol, because it is such a small molecule behaves differently from all other polyols in the way it passes through the human digestive system, and therefore has a unique metabolic profile. The low molecular weight allows more than 90% of the ingested erythritol to be rapidly absorbed from the small intestine. It is not metabolised and is excreted unchanged in the urine. This results in a very low caloric value of max. 0.2 Kcal/g.
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