Anyone using Xylitol or Erythritol?

[Schnellbandit]

I admit, I use Xylitol in small amounts.

I often bake pies and went added refined sugar free some time ago but for some reason I like coffee (2 cups a day) lightly sweetened, a teaspoon of bakers sugar is what I used to use. Nowadays I just use the same amount of Xylitol. I've never had the interesting side effects some get and it satisfies the want.

Anyone else? Do you bake with it or use it for other things? (not heating it in a spoon, boiling and inhaling, snorting or anything like that) No biggie if you say it's bad or worse than cane sugar.

 

[Nucking Futs]

Apt timing!

For the first time I'm drinking my coffee with Xylitol and it tastes like a weird chemical. Usually I use cane sugar, mostly just black. But i don't like this Xylitol at all! :barf

 

[Schnellbandit]

Make sure the Xylitol you get is made from American Birch. There are a lot of sources for Xylitol and plenty come from overseas and from questionable processes.

Xylitol from American Birch should have no strange taste and be indistinguishable from refined sugar. Make sure its non-GMO and free of soy and diary. Maybe try "morningpep", I found that to be as close to the taste of refined sugar as it gets and zero aftertaste.

I started out by cutting in Xylitol 1/2-1/2 and noticed no difference in taste and then went all in.

 

[Akira-R]

My wife is doing the no sugar thing, but stopped using Xylitol when she found out it's pretty toxic to dogs. Since our dogs tend to lick the floor as soon as anything hits it, she stopped using it.

 

[Schnellbandit]

My wife is doing the no sugar thing, but stopped using Xylitol when she found out it's pretty toxic to dogs. Since our dogs tend to lick the floor as soon as anything hits it, she stopped using it.

Do you hire them out?:laughing

Yeah, I think it's something about it not being absorbed or processed by the body that does it. That's also why consuming large amounts has some side effects that can increase your purchases of plungers and draino.

If you can get off sweetened anything that is a good thing, I've just can't get past the coffee thing. I've been told that if I drank better coffee then that might help but I'm lazy when it comes to that. I've tried going out for coffee and aside from finding out I could buy a new motorcycle every year if I stopped that, it seems after a while no matter how good the coffee started out to taste, after a while it tastes like it was run through old socks.

 

[mean dad]

I'd much rather cut down on sugar, than utilize a substitute as its replacement. I'm a firm believer in moderation, so eating something with sugar doesn't bother me. It's when you have 27 somethings with sugar that it becomes a problem.

I have a sweet tooth like nobody's business and I frequently assuage that craving with home-made goodies but no sodas for sure, not much in the way of processed sweets, and definitely no froyo or store-bought cakes.



All of the sugar substitutes I've tried have a chemical taste.

 

[Entoptic]

Erin tried it once and went back to sugar. Something about the taste and how her baked goods turned out. I’m guessing but I think it has something to do with the chemistry and melting point. I’m not certain but I could tell the difference in her baked goods.

YMMV

Have you checked out browneyedbaker.com ???