Xylitol has received both cheers and jeers from health professionals. The jeers, by the way, weren't so much for xylitol itself. Xylitol just happens to be very, very fibrous (which can be a blessing or a curse). If one eats too much of it, one can be sick with loose stool; or when one is just starting GAPS diet, fiber is decreased as much as possible so xylitol isn't an ally in that case either. My nutritionist, in fact, prefers that I receive my sugars from a little bit of low glycemic fruit or from honey.
This doesn't make xylitol a bad guy; not even just to me. In fact, I make a tooth powder and I use a non GMO xylitol as one of the main ingredients. Not only does it fight plaque and tartar, but it sweetens the powder as well!
As far as using xylitol as a sweetener when you are avoiding yeast feeding foods, this is a decision between you and your health professional. Ask which sweetener is best for you.
Candida Diet: Xylitol
Wow. YOur blog post didn't help at all.
ReplyDelete1. Xylitol has no fiber. It is, however, derived from the fibers of many plants as well as produced through a chemical process with sugar. Could you have been thinking of Inulin with is a sweet tasting fiber commonly derived from chicory?
2. Since I was searching for information on Candida, the GAPS diet and xylitol, your advice that this "is a decision between you and your health professional" is valueless. Why didn't you just write a blog saying, "I don't know anything about xylitol and the GAPS diet. Go ask someone else."