Re: Sorbitol and Xylitol Gum????

June 14, 2006

Antoinette,

sugar alcohols of any kind are completely indigestable. Great fodder for those

bugs

Charlene

Dear list mates and moderators,

On page 62 Elaine says that we can occasionaly have low calorie diet

chewing gum or candy if it contains soribitol and Xlitol. Also saying

that excessive use of these products can cause diarrhea and bloating

(ie fermentaion!)

Does anyone know what kind this would be? Because I have been looking

around and all of them that are sweetened in this way. So far all

have added starch and xanthan gum and God knows what else, which would

make it illegal.

OTHERWISE, Does anyone have a recipe for gum? Can't find one.

THANK YOU, Antoinette posting QUESTION for son -4

(celiac/adhd/PAST rages/tantrums) SCD 2/06

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June 14, 2006

>

> Dear list mates and moderators,

>

> On page 62 Elaine says that we can occasionaly have low calorie diet

> chewing gum or candy if it contains soribitol and Xlitol.

How do these ingredients look? They have spearmint and peppermint.

Guess we'd still have to check on the " flavor extract " .

XYLIPRO Xylitol Gum Ingredients:

Xylitol, gum base, flavor extract, gum arabic, soy lecithin,

glycerin, beeswax, carnaubawax

http://www.xylipro.com/index.html

, mom to

June 14, 2006

Flavor extract is suspicious. There is no safe amount of flavor chemicals or

enhancers for some people...

julie46250 wrote:

>

> Dear list mates and moderators,

>

> On page 62 Elaine says that we can occasionaly have low calorie diet

> chewing gum or candy if it contains soribitol and Xlitol.

How do these ingredients look? They have spearmint and peppermint.

Guess we'd still have to check on the " flavor extract " .

XYLIPRO Xylitol Gum Ingredients:

Xylitol, gum base, flavor extract, gum arabic, soy lecithin,

glycerin, beeswax, carnaubawax

http://www.xylipro.com/index.html

, mom to

Summer's Family, SCD 08/04 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/openblooms/

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June 14, 2006

If anyone tries this gum, please let me know. I would love to have gum for my

son.

Thanks

Sue

6 yr old son, SCD 3 months, no more learning issues.

June 15, 2006

Xylitol is probably your best bet, although it can be made from 2

different substances - birch and corn. The birch is more expensive,

but most likely the better option, esp since most people on this list

probably have a problem with corn. Check with the mfg if you can to

find out the origin of the xylitol.

Sue

>

> If anyone tries this gum, please let me know. I would love to have

gum for my son.

>

> Thanks

> Sue

> 6 yr old son, SCD 3 months, no more learning issues.

>

June 15, 2006

Dearest Sue, Thank you for warning me that Sorbitol and Xylitol could be derived

by corn~ I keep on forgetting about this little problem. We learned it a while

ago when we learned by Carol F that " citric acid " in the canned pineapple and

others things, could be derived by corn. We are not going to be doing this

experiment any day soon. Don't trust the corn problem is gone yet. Back to

scratch and keeping it simple and safe.

posted this: " How do these ingredients look? They have spearmint and

peppermint.

Guess we'd still have to check on the " flavor extract " .

XYLIPRO Xylitol Gum Ingredients:

Xylitol, gum base, flavor extract, gum arabic, soy lecithin,

glycerin, beeswax, carnaubawax

http://www.xylipro.com/index.html<http://www.xylipro.com/index.html>

From Elaine's Legal and Illegal list I never could find out if these where

legal or not: " gum base " , " flavor extract " (with God knows what in it), " gum

arabic " , " beeswax " , or " carnaubawax " .....none of them on the list. What was

on Elaine's Legal and Illegal list is that: " ALL GUMS ARE ILLEGAL " . Even

though her book said occasionally sorbitol and xylitol gum is OK to use, I

guess Elaine at sometime changed that ALL gum could not be used any more.

Probably because of other strange things that are illegal in ingredients.

http://www.breakingtheviciouscycle.info/legal/legal_illegal_d-n.htm<http://www.b\

reakingtheviciouscycle.info/legal/legal_illegal_d-n.htm>

In situations like these: WHEN IN DOUBT GO WITHOUT! This is exactly what we

are going to do. Sue, my son too, is not going to be happy. But better than

being sick. We will make Elaine's honey lollipops today instead!

Better safe than sorry, Antoinette (celiac) mom to -5 (celiac/once

adhd/rages) SCD 2/06

June 15, 2006

When Elaine said sugar free gum, she said occasionally.

I tried an Eda sugarless hard candy which I used to eat before SCD and

spit it out. It had a terrible artificial taste compared to SCD sweets.

Personally I would not encourage gum chewing. It is unpleasant to

watch, I don't tolerate the odor myself, and it lands in unexpected

places from time to time, ruining things.

> Xylitol is probably your best bet, although it can be made from 2

> different substances - birch and corn. The birch is more expensive,

> but most likely the better option, esp since most people on this list

> probably have a problem with corn. Check with the mfg if you can to

> find out the origin of the xylitol.

>

> Sue

>

Carol F.

Celiac, MCS, Latex Allergy, EMS

SCD 6 years

June 15, 2006