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"It is a colorless, odorless, sweet-tasting, viscous liquid." ... "It is also widely used as a sweetener in the food industry and as a humectant in pharmaceutic

• cwmma 2y ago
  It's not considered an "artificial sweetener" as it's usually extracted from natural sources.
  • basch 2y ago
    It also has the same calories (or more) than sugar. It’s not used to make low calorie food.
    • cwmma 2y ago
      Yeah but it's orders of magnitude more sweet then regular sugar, so you use way less of it
• ziddoap 2y ago
  As I understand it, they aren't saying "it isn't sweet". They are saying "it isn't labelled as an artificial sweetener" The key part being "labelled as".
  • basch 2y ago
    It’s getting lumped in the wrong category here. SimplyProtein Crispy Bars have it (Costco) if anyone wants to look in their cupboard at a nutrition label. It falls into total carbohydrates but not Total sugar, despite being a sugar alcohol. It has the same calories as sugar; but a different metabolic pathway. Glycerine / Glycerol is NOT a calorie free sweetener. It also tastes less sweet than other sugars.
• mrguyorama 2y ago
  The point is: On the ingredients label, it is called a "Humectant", not a sweetener, so a drink sweetened with only glycerol will be advertised as sugarfree, and "artificial sweetener free"