Someone recently asked if Sorbitol in gum was a safe sweetener. Usually I simply say it’s a sugar alcohol known to cause bloating, diarrhea and gas. However, the Internet is full of more indepth articles on the sweetener and other problems such as this one: http://www.naturalnews.com/037813_sorbitol_cataracts_diabetics.html If you google enough articles you will find deaths from too much of Sorbitol. What really concerns me is its added to gum with other sweeteners. On one Wrigley’s page, now owned by Mars, is this list: Acesulfame, Aspartame, Maltitol, Sucralose, Sorbitol, and Xylitol. Here is the web site: http://www.wrigley.com/global/about-us/ingredients.aspx
So I went to Food Babe on their analysis of ingredients in gum:
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