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I'm wondering whether anyone here uses xylitol? It's a sugar substance with half the calories of sugar but has other benefits like improving oral health and discouraging candidal growth. Apparently it has no aftertaste, unlike other sugar substitutes. It is however more expensive than mass produced sweeteners like nutrasweet.
No but I like the sound of it, particularly the oral health part. Will be interested to hear if anyone knows more about it and where to get it.
I have used steevia before (natural sweetener), but found it was gritty, so didn't like the feel of it when eating something in which it was an ingredient.
Apparently you can get it in a granular/powdered form at the health food shop, you use it spoon for spoon like sugar. I was at the health food shop today but forgot to ask!!
I tried stevia, bought the sachets but found a whole sachet too sweet, bit tricky to halve it because there's not much in the sachet, kwim?
ETA oh and apparently there are some chewing gums on the market with it in (for dental health) but I'm not sure which ones
I have used it, when I was working with a diabetic child. Didn't know about the oral health issues, it just made it easier for me to bake biscuits and the like that she could have.
What do you want to know about it?
Is the flavour really like sugar? Would you use it long term instead of sugar? (You've already answered one q by the way - since you were baking with it)! Do you remember how much it cost?
No real idea on cost as I lived overseas at the time. The flavour is really like sugar, doesn't have that metal-type taste that other sweeteners have. I wouldn't use it long term, now, only because I don't need to. A 50-50 relationship with xylitol might be fun...