Why does sugar free Russell Stover candies give me so much painful gas?!
Question: It's sweetened with an artificial sweetener that acts as a laxative if too much is eaten. Just two candies and I'm runnin for restroom.
Answers: It's sweetened with an artificial sweetener that acts as a laxative if too much is eaten. Just two candies and I'm runnin for restroom.
If they are sweetened with sorbitol (or malitol or similar artifical sweetener), that's a 'sugar alcohol' and can be hard to digest-hence the flatulence...
Sugar alcohols are neither sugars nor alcohols. They are carbohydrates with a chemical structure that partially resembles sugar and partially resembles alcohol, but are incompletely absorbed and metabolized by the body; this contributes fewer calories than most sugars, but leaves the consumer vulnerable to intestinal distress...
most sugar free stuff gives u gas i dont know why