Talk:Sugar alcohol

message: What is internal body odor?  How can you tell? Djdickmutt 02:09, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Internal Body Odor??

message: "Despite the variance in caloric content of sugar alcohols, EU labeling requirements assign a blanket value of 2.4 kcal/g to all sugar alcohols."
And people make fun of Alabama for allegedly ruling that the value of pi is 3. McGehee 14:58, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm glad someone checked it out. It was why I said "allegedly," after all. ;-) McGehee (talk) 18:54, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Just a Slight Funny

message: I want to learn whether this "sugar alcohols" are accepted as the alcohol -which Islam refuses to be used- or not ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 155.223.40.240 (talk • contribs) 14:53, 26 February 2007
: I suspect not, as they do not have an intoxicating effect and contain no ethanol, but you'd probably have to check for a fatwa from your particular Islamic organization to be sure. Vectro 06:33, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The sugar alcohol formula is confusing, but not quite "wrong". HOCH2(HCOH)n-2CH2OH would be clearer.  The sugar formula is wrong, because it implies all sugars are aldoses, but I don't see any easy way to fix it.72.197.227.204 (talk) 23:16, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Difference between [[Alcohol]] and [[Sugar Alcohol]] 

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message: Methanol is brought up a few times in this article as being a sugar alcohol. Is it? I'm no chemist, but this seems incorrect. I know for a fact that methanol is not a "white, water-soluble solid", which is the description given in the third sentence of the article. Nor is it "sweet" as the article states.  104.51.149.199 (talk) 08:48, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Methanol does not meet any normal definition of a sugar alcohol, so I have removed mention of it from the article.  -- Ed (Edgar181) 11:51, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Methanol 

message: Substituted at 07:15, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

message: The last sentence the introduction suggests without citation and in uncertain language that xylitol is the most "popular" sugar alcohol. James BeMiller's Carbohydrate Chemistry, which is published by the AACC, states that "sorbitol is ... produced and used in greatest quantities." Can we get this fixed?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:A601:6B0:A301:612B:B840:6293:4795 (talk) 05:28, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Most popular? 

message: The following 2 claims "Sugar alcohols do not contribute to tooth decay" and "Sugar alcohols are not metabolized by oral bacteria, and so they do not contribute to tooth decay" lack proper sourcing. No page number is given and the quoted study does not encompass the entire group of sugar alcohols but only specific effects of xylitol and sorbitol: "This study examines the effect of xylitol and sorbitol." as can be seen in the abstract: http://web.archive.org/web/20110615024410/http://content.karger.com/ProdukteDB/produkte.asp?Aktion=ShowAbstract&ArtikelNr=261977&Ausgabe=248146&ProduktNr=224219 While many sugar alcohols are generally considered to be non-cariogenic, studies point to some of them as being at least slightly cariogenic. For example, the German Wikipedia page for Sorbitol states that Sorbitol is slightly cariogenic. Therefore, while there seems to be a general agreement, that most sugar alcohols are non-cariogenic, the claim that ALL sugar alcohols are non-cariogenic appears to be in dispute. As a consequence, proper sourcing for this claim (that ALL sugar alcohols are non-cariogenic) would be important. --boarders paradise (talk) 16:58, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  tooth decay 

message: A lot of this article feels carefully worded to frame sugar alcohols in a positive light. This is the entirety of the "health effects" section:
Health effects
Sugar alcohols do not contribute to tooth decay; in fact, xylitol deters tooth decay.
Sugar alcohols are absorbed at 50% of the rate of sugars, resulting in less of an effect on blood sugar levels as measured by comparing their effect to sucrose using the glycemic index.
When sugar alcohols cause digestive issues, it's generally a result of fermentation by gut bacteria. Yet the article does not mention any mechanism for digestive issues beyond mentioning they can occur, and then not in the prominent if short "health effects" section, but as the last sentence of the final section. Further, consider the line:
Sugar alcohols are not metabolized by oral bacteria, and so they do not contribute to tooth decay.
How are sugar alcohols not metabolized by oral bacteria if the one notable side effect is caused by extensive fermentation by gut bacteria? Tglibs (talk) 20:35, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Does this page sound just a bit like an advertisement?