![]() ![]() There are two main types of sweeteners, i.e., nutritive and artificial ones. There are more and more people who are trying to lose weight or keeping the weight off therefore, sweeteners can be now found in almost all food products. Epidemic obesity and diabetes encouraged the growth of the artificial sweetener industry. The presence of foreign substances in the food can be justified, allowed or tolerated only when they are harmless to our health. The health quality of food depends mainly on nutrients, but also on foreign substances such as food additives. It was mainly due to the developments in biological studies, the change of a population lifestyle and the increase in the consumer awareness concerning food products. People always tried to use benefits of the nature however, just recently in the final years of the twentieth century, a gigantic progress in the food technology could have been observed. ![]() This review deals with the role of commonly used sugar alcohols such as erythritol, isomalt, lactitol, maltitol, mannitol, sorbitol and xylitol as sugar substitutes in food industry. ![]() Consumption of low-calorie foods by the worldwide population has dramatically increased, as well as health concerns associated with the consequent high intake of sweeteners. They are added to foods as alternative sweeteners what might be helpful in the control of calories intake. They have found use as bulk sweeteners that promote dental health and exert prebiotic effect. Due to their properties, sugar alcohols are widely used in food, beverage, confectionery and pharmaceutical industries throughout the world. These compounds are usually produced by a catalytic hydrogenation of carbohydrates, but they can be also found in nature in fruits, vegetables or mushrooms as well as in human organism. Food industry has responded people’s demand by producing a number of energy-reduced products with sugar alcohols as sweeteners. Epidemic obesity and diabetes encouraged the changes in population lifestyle and consumers’ food products awareness. ![]()
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