Xylitol

Unique Sweet® Xylitol is a natural occurring sweetener found in many fruits like strawberries, pears and plums. Unique Sweet® tastes and pours like regular sugar, but provides 40% fewer calories. Unique Sweet® mixes easily, dissolves readily and is heat stable, making it the ideal sweetener for baking and other cooking applications.

Reversal of Bone Loss with Xylitol A recent exciting study has shown that osteoporosis may be another condition for which Xylitol may be of help. In studies in Finland in 1994 , Xylitol was shown to be able to maintain bone density in rats which had their ovaries surgically removed. (7) Without ovaries, estrogen levels in these rats plummeted - and so did the bone density in the rats which were not given Xylitol. However, in ovariectomized rats which had been given Xylitol, bone density actually increased.

Although Xylitol may seem to be expensive when compared to sugar, its cost is clearly a bargain when compared to the cost of most other anti-osteoporosis or weight loss agents, to say nothing of savings on dental bills and hip fracture-rehabilitation costs, and improved quality of life.