table presents the relative sweetness and food energy of the most widely used sugar alcohols. Despite the variance in food energy content of sugar alcohols, the European Union's labeling requirements assign a blanket value of 2.4 kcal/g to all sugar alcohols.

Characteristics

As a group, sugar alcohols are not as sweet as sucrose, and they have slightly less food energy than sucrose. Their flavor is similar to sucrose,

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