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from: intelihealth.com

Depending on the food, carbohydrate labeling can be broken down into “Dietary Fiber”, “Sugars,” “Sugar Alcohols” and “Other Carbohydrates.”

The largest group of these partially digested carbohydrates is sugar alcohols, which are sweet-tasting but are not absorbed as completely as sugar and have fewer calories. Sugar alcohols include maltitol, isomalt, erythritol, mannitol, sorbitol, xylitol, lactitol and a more encompassing term called hydrogenated starch hydrolysates. Sugar alcohols can be voluntarily listed collectively as “sugar alcohols” or listed individually underneath Sugars in the Nutrition Facts Box. In addition, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration standards require that sugar alcohols be listed by name in the ingredients.

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