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Message: <blockquote data-quote="smidge" data-source="post: 816540" data-attributes="member: 29301">Hey Dillinger! Even the most die-hard polyol recipe writers have now come round to the idea that they DO affect BG to some extent - not sure Atkins Ltd has got there yet though! People see to fall into two camps on this - either they get stomach upsets and no or little BG impact (presumably because they can't digest them so they fester in the small intestine (nice!)) or they get no stomach upset but feel the full impact on their BG - like me! Although [USER=30007]@tim2000s[/USER] seems to get both LOL - sorry Tim!Polyols are completely carb - but it's this US diet industry idea of 'available carbs' - i.e. deduct the carbs you can't digest and only count the ones that are left. Most of the chocolates made of polyols in the UK use Maltitol - and this hits my BG just like sucrose. Thorntons diabetic milk chocolate uses this.The erythritol polyol that a lot of people seem to tolerate very well works differently - it doesn't go anywhere near the BG or the small intestine apparently. It gets processed by the kidneys and expelled in the urine. I've seen no really bad reports of it, but I don't fancy the idea of my kidneys and bladder having to deal with that so I've steered well away from it.Smidge</blockquote>

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