Depends on the sugar alcohol. Quite a few of them draw water out of the colon and result in... let's call them "unpleasant bowel movements". Xylitol and eryth

Depends on the sugar alcohol. Quite a few of them draw water out of the colon and result in... let's call them "unpleasant bowel movements". Xylitol and erythritol are the only ones I'd consider consuming regularly, and they will be uncomfortable until you develop a tolerance for them. I have never heard of anyone that has ever experienced constipation resulting from sugar alcohols. It has always emphatically (and sometimes noisily) been the antipode to that condition.