To maintain good health it is very important to satisfy your body's basic nutritional needs. Without a balanced diet your body cannot function efficiently. A balanced diet includes eating a variety of foods every day. Of course, you may also want to enjoy an occasional sweet or between meal treat.
Sugar alcohols are completely different than sugar and alcohol that most people know.
In fact, sugar alcohols are not sugars and they do not contain alcohol. They are a group of unique ingredients that can substitute for sugars, but that also have some special advantages. It's easy to find products from which sugars have been removed and replaced with sugar-free ingredients. These ingredients are all polyols. Polyols have been used for many years to replace sugars in a wide variety of products such as chewing gums, candies, ice cream, baked goods and fruit spreads.