Back when I still used sugar I found Xylitol pretty neat. It has about 1/2 of the calories of normal sugar but mostly tastes the same (I actually prefer it to 'real' sugar by taste). There are some claims about health benefits but I remain skeptical about them.
All in all, I decided pretty early on that eating stuff that tastes extremely sweet but does not cause the associated glucose spike is a weird way of fooling one's body, and it just doesn't seem like a great idea to me...
Reducing sugar/overly sweet stuff intake has this nice by-effect that everything else starts tasting much, much more intense. I'm very much into savory stuff nowadays, and when I sometimes let someone trick me into trying something sweet, I usually regret it - purely based on the disappointing taste.
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Back when I still used sugar I found Xylitol pretty neat. It has about 1/2 of the calories of normal sugar but mostly tastes the same (I actually prefer it to 'real' sugar by taste). There are some claims about health benefits but I remain skeptical about them.
All in all, I decided pretty early on that eating stuff that tastes extremely sweet but does not cause the associated glucose spike is a weird way of fooling one's body, and it just doesn't seem like a great idea to me...
Reducing sugar/overly sweet stuff intake has this nice by-effect that everything else starts tasting much, much more intense. I'm very much into savory stuff nowadays, and when I sometimes let someone trick me into trying something sweet, I usually regret it - purely based on the disappointing taste.
Xylitol gives me diarrhea and gas. I found out the first time when I took some candy with it before a long flight!
My encounter was a xylitol-sweetened triple ice cream cone. Massive amounts of the stuff in the gut. Wasn't before a flight, at least.
There should be no question about xylitol being beneficial for dental health. (Not just less harmful than sugar, but actively beneficial.)
When I looked at the studies for these claims, they seemed to be of rather low quality.
Xylitol will kill my dogs.