Help me out here, but toothpast contains sugar???? REALLY!?

[Little Chicken]

Saccharin[2] is an artificial sweetener. The basic substance, benzoic sulfilimine, has effectively no food energy and is much sweeter than sucrose, but has a bitter or metallic aftertaste, especially at high concentrations. It is used to sweeten products such as drinks, candies, biscuits, medicines, and toothpaste.

[Floweryfields]

Thanks, LC, I did already know that - my point was why are they putting sugar in toothpaste? Surely it can't be helping our teeth - I never rinse it all out, so it sits in my mouth on my teeth, how is that different to drinking something with sugar in it and not brushing?

[luna moth]

Because sugar does feed the cavity causing bacteria, but glycerin/saccharin don't. As the above quotes state.