European journal of clinical nutrition
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Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative Study Clinical Trial
Dose-related gastrointestinal response to the ingestion of either isomalt, lactitol or maltitol in milk chocolate.
To determine whether there were differences between different polyols (sugar alcohols) in terms of their ability to stimulate intolerance symptoms when consumed in milk chocolate. Also to discover whether symptomatology can be related to the dose of polyol ingested. ⋯ This work has shown that there are significant differences in the reporting of gastrointestinal symptomatology following the consumption of isomalt, lactitol and maltitol incorporated into milk chocolate. However, with all three polyols the incidence and severity of symptomatology was dose dependent.