A type of sugar alcohol with very few calories that tastes almost like regular sugar and is used as a sweetener in many diet and sugar-free foods.
From Greek 'erythros' (red) combined with '-itol,' a suffix for sugar alcohols (polyols). It was discovered in the 19th century in certain seaweeds and bacteria.
Erythritol is one of nature's greatest gifts to people trying to reduce sugar—it has almost zero calories, doesn't spike blood sugar, and doesn't leave the bitter aftertaste that fake sweeteners are famous for, yet it was hiding in seaweed the whole time.
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