Definitions for erythritol
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1. erythritolnoun

   A tetrahydric sugar alcohol (2R,3S)-butane-1,2,3,4-tetraol that occurs in some fruit; it is used as a sugar substitute

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1. Erythritol

   Erythritol is an organic compound, a four-carbon sugar alcohol (or polyol) with no optical activity, used as a food additive and sugar substitute. It is naturally occurring. It can be made from corn using enzymes and fermentation. Its formula is C4H10O4, or HO(CH2)(CHOH)2(CH2)OH; specifically, one particular stereoisomer with that formula. Erythritol is 60–70% as sweet as sucrose (table sugar). However, erythritol is almost completely noncaloric and does not affect blood sugar or cause tooth decay. Japanese companies pioneered the commercial development of erythritol as a sweetener in the 1990s.

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1. Erythritol

   Erythritol is a sugar alcohol that has been approved for use as a food additive in the United States and throughout much of the world. It was discovered in 1848 by British chemist John Stenhouse. It occurs naturally in some fruits and fermented foods. At the industrial level, it is produced from glucose by fermentation with a yeast, Moniliella pollinis. It is 60–70% as sweet as table sugar yet it is almost noncaloric, does not affect blood sugar, does not cause tooth decay, and is partially absorbed by the body, excreted in urine and feces. It is less likely to cause gastric side effects than other sugar alcohols because of its unique digestion pathway. Under U.S. Food and Drug Administration labeling requirements, it has a caloric value of 0.2 kilocalories per gram, though nutritional labeling varies from country to country. Some countries, such as Japan and the United States, label it as zero-calorie, while European Union regulations currently label it and all other sugar alcohols at 0.24 kcal/g. Some artificial sweeteners combine erythritol with monk fruit extract and are sold in orange packets.

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1. Erythritol

   A four-carbon sugar that is found in algae, fungi, and lichens. It is twice as sweet as sucrose and can be used as a coronary vasodilator.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of erythritol in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of erythritol in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of erythritol in a Sentence

1. Stanley Hazen:

   For people who are at risk for clotting, heart attack and stroke — like people with existing cardiac disease or people with diabetes — I think that there’s sufficient data here to say stay away from erythritol until more studies are done.

2. Stanley Hazen:

   My co-author and I have been going to grocery stores and looking at labels, he found a ‘confectionery’ marketed to people with diabetes that had about 75 grams of erythritol.

3. Stanley Hazen:

   We found this substance that seemed to play a big role, but we didn’t know what it was, then we discovered it was erythritol, a sweetener.

4. Oliver Jones:

   Any possible (and, as yet unproven) risks of excess erythritol would also need to be balanced against the very real health risks of excess glucose consumption.

5. Stanley Hazen:

   Thirty grams was enough to make blood levels of erythritol go up a thousandfold, it remained elevated above the threshold necessary to trigger and heighten clotting risk for the following two to three days.

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References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Erythritol
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erythritol
3. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=erythritol