I feel like xylitol was never a particularly viable candidate as an artificial sweetener; as the article mentions, you experience digestive distress when consum

I feel like xylitol was never a particularly viable candidate as an artificial sweetener; as the article mentions, you experience digestive distress when consuming enough to sweeten a soda. Whether or not it's bad for you over time doesn't matter, it's already not a very good artificial sweetener. The sweetness to calorie ratio isn't very good either. It does taste pretty good, however, especially in things like mint candies that already have a cooling effect. (I was very excited about xylitol when I first heard about it. Excited enough to order a bunch of candy and eat far too much of it in one go. Didn't make that mistake again!)