[Lovesong]

After a couple of years without taking a single one, a couple of months ago I bought a Smint lemon package, I used to love them as a kid so why not taking one for nostalgia's sake.

Since I'm not that used to artificial sweateners ( I dont drink coke or anything related to sugar ), the taste was noticiable inmediatly, it didn't bother me, it was just a curious feeling of being able to detect it so quickly. I ate like 3 or 4, those things were addictive.

What bothered me was what happened a couple of hours later, I had a massive stomach bloat and ache, higher than normal body temperature and generally felt like I was gonna throw it up and I couldn't hold it. After an hour of lying in the sofa I said that it was enough and indeed, threw up my dinner that night.

To my list of things I don't eat, xylitol was added inmediatly, I have never felt so sick, so fast in so little time.

[Karrot_Kream]

Xylitol is not an artificial sweetener, it's a sugar alcohol. Sugar alcohols are generally derived by processing natural ingredients. Xylitol is made by extracting the sugar alcohol from beech wood. Sugar alcohols can cause bloating and diarrhea due to osmotic effects [1] and can have laxative properties for some. I'm a bit sensitive to sugar alcohols myself.

Look I don't think this kind of comment adds any value to this discussion. There's a linked paper here and it's useful to discuss it. But humans all eat food, and if we start chiming into every nutrition article with random anecdotes about what we eat, then the purpose of keeping HN a high quality site goes away. The science is hard enough to get straight, adding random anecdotes lowers whatever signal we have.

[1]: https://www.ynhh.org/services/nutrition/sugar-alcohol.aspx