Erythritol – better than sugar?
This year we baked our cookies with erythritol instead of sugar – there's hardly any difference in consistency or taste, but the cookie dough has about 1,000 fewer calories overall.
Now I have read that excessive consumption of erythritol can have a laxative effect; a more serious side effect would be an increased risk of thrombosis.
So is it still a concern if we bake the cookies this year only with erythritol or should we be cautious?
I mean, compared to sugar, erythritol has hardly any side effects.
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You can do that. I can only tell you how I handle it. I do not eat light products (do not drink them). When I bake something (which is mega rare, it comes in quite normal sugar and butter etc. However, I don’t care about calories:-)
Erythrit provides less gastrointestinal discomfort than xylite. However, erythrit is also less sweet than sugar, so you have to dose a little higher to get to the same sweetness. In the event of excessive consumption, erythrit can act abductively and/or cause bloating/smoothing. 20-30 grams of erythrit per day but rarely cause complaints
Persons with sensitive intestinal, fructose or histamine intolerance should, for safety reasons, dispense with sugar substitutes. Although erythrit is a food additive that is classified as safe, there are currently no long-term studies of its effect.
If there is a risk of thrombosis, I would be careful
Erythrit is actually a popular alternative to sugar, especially for more calorie recipes like your cookies. The advantage: It has hardly any calories, does not affect blood sugar levels and tastes similar to sugar. In normal quantities, erythrit is safe for most. Problems such as abductive effect usually occur only at very high amounts, so far beyond what one would use for a few cookies. The discussion about increased risk of thrombosis is based on individual studies and is currently not conclusive. As long as you use erythrite in dimensions and do not consume large amounts of pure, you do not need to worry.
erythrite in such large quantities is actually poisonous.
if you eat only 2 or 3 cookies every day, it’s not that bad. but if you can’t stop eating more than 100g, it can be worrying.
pets are not allowed to eat. also not equipped.
that erythrit and sugar taste the same, I dare to doubt it. when you bake, you also buy better sugar and not simple white sugar. so you’re right. if you are used to flat taste, it really doesn’t make any difference.
but if you use sucanat or jaggery powder for baking, then you miss the rounded taste. in jaggery powder you can reduce a good third anyway and it tastes the same.
overall, the sugar levels in the recipes are always much higher than necessary.
A few years ago, I switched from household sugar to xylit + erythrit because I had found that I consumed over 50 kilos of double sugar per year. In general, I have never had such a tendency towards sugar; but the crowd was scary to me.
I did not take off the changeover…. I think Xylit is also used in the pig mast. For the teeth, the replacements are definitely better. And I have no medical complaints.
I had gogled with erythrit the other day after baking and read that this was not so stupid because the fabric then crystallizes in the cookie.
we do not eat finished products/mixed drinks, we eat little candy – pastries and cakes are rare
we therefore consume little sugar and do not have to worry about what we can eat or not
our well-being and our teeth thank us
No. Erythrit harms health.
Do you have a scientific study that you can send me?
If you do not exaggerate, 0.78g/Kg body weight, you should not suffer any damage.
Remember, erythritol has only about 50-70% of the sweetness of sugar; doesn't have to stick everything in front of noisy sweet.
With me the stuff does not come into the house as I hold dogs and cats and according to various pages Erythrit is therefore birch sugar for dogs and cats deadly from 2-3g.
I guess you fell victim to false information.
Erythrit is not birch sugar. What you mean is Xylit.
erythrit is even more poisonous.
the lists you find about google. xylit and erythrit is actually the same. erythrit is still a bit more chemical, but is made of wood. is one of the sugar alcohols.
I don’t find any scientific studies. Did you do that? If so, enlighten me.
Oh, it’s warned so much about healthy things. This is intent, and it seems that one for the benefit of the sugar industry has kept the magnification of a possible side effect.
It is clear that the multiple dose of life of a substance can be detrimental and fatal.
How many cookies can you eat on a set? Is that 20 too much – and then? Then you have a fresher digestion – against stuffing chocolate and too little movement that is then just the compensation! All the best!
For thrombosis prophylaxis there is very good nutrition with lots of natural vitamin C and citrus flavonoids as well as enzymes from pineapple and papaya, vine leaves, rutin, etc. And drink plenty of water and unsweetened herbal tea.
Even I have already considered baking two varieties of cookies with birch sugar as an experiment. (Everyone as a mouthwashing for caries prophylaxis in the evening, the kilo will not be all..)
I would use sugar substitutes!
Addendum: Here comes a recipe for ‘Sugar Casting with Erythrit