Talk:Erythritol

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This page was in serious need of cleanup. Erythritol is a wonderful ingredient, but this page didn't do it justice! So I spent a few minutes as a bit of an expert in this field and cleaned things up. I hope I have caught all my typos, but you never know... Blueandwhiteg3 05:12, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Where did you get your information that the US ruled a 2kcal/g value for it. Furthermore values are often the geometric mean value of all values of a certain category. For instance the EU ruled a general value of 2.4 for all sugar-alcohol based sweeteners, although erythritol isn't taken into consideration yet. --Slicky 21:03, Mar 22, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Some Unbiased Facts Please

What is the industrial source of the product?

What are the naturally occurring sources of the product justifying the statement "Erythritol has long been part of the human diet."?

Have any long term safety and food/drug interaction studies been done on it?

This article at presents sounds like something written by the Erythritol industry...

This article seems completely biased. It comes across as a panacea. I would like to see answers to the above questions as well as how long has erythritol been consumed in this isolated form.

Not sure what you are talking about here. It's got a lot of downsides listed right in the article. The other information may well have not been studied yet - so do some research and figure it out! --66.7.96.6 20:58, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi all, I see no discussion of a controversy - but in my experience covering chemicals, there is no chemical without a controvesy behind it. For sure I would love to see more on the industrial sources, potential contaminants, and effects on the body. I will look...Eric Francis/PlanetWaves 71.169.26.214 16:03, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

I cant vounch for what actual bacterial or yeast strain is used in industrial fermentation of sugar is used to produce erythritol but there seem to be many options in this patent. Benkeboy 13:01, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

I agree; this article doesn't cite a single source, and seems instead like it was written as an advertisement for the chemical. 67.188.23.253 17:39, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

I also agree - this article just feels like an ad. I'm waiting for Wikiscanner to enable article-based edit history searching... --WayneMokane 14:22, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

I agree that the tone of the article is very non-neutral. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.240.90.36 (talk) 14:24, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] A drink that has "Natural Erythritol" as an ingredient

There is a soda that has "Natural Erythritol" as an ingredient in the USA. So does this mean that the Erythritol was procurred or made naturally? Is there un-natural Erythritol? Antmusic (talk) 16:35, 3 January 2008 (UTC)