S. until it arrived in chewing gum in 1975. While Germans and Italians -- along with the Russians and Japanese -- were using it as a sugar substitute, Americans were still heaping piles of sugar on their breakfast cereal and in their coffee and ice tea.
But today, Xylitol is marketed in the U.S. As "Miracle Sweet," "Perfect Sweet," and "Healthy Sweet" (Gare, 8). Is it more or less expensive than sugar? Gare writes that it is "far more expensive than sugar, albeit recently the price has been coming down low enough to be marketed in items like cake mixes, brownies, muffins, cookies, candies, ice creams and puddings; Gare asserts that Xylitol in these baked items make them taste as least as good as, of not better than, "the real thing" (8).
How exactly is it made? Already noted in this paper is the fact that Xylitol is present in hardwood like birch and beech, and it is found in wheat, rice, cottonseed hulls and corncobs. In fact, Gare suggests that since corncobs are "a major waste product" in the food industry, a great deal of the supply of Xylitol comes from corncobs. This is an appealing concept for those Americans conscience about recycling, global climate change, and conservation in general. If an effective product to reduce the amount of sugar people consume can come from corncobs, that is a very good sign that Americans are making the best use of their food chain items.
When it comes to the response of dentists to Xylitol, Antonio Mendez-Vilas writes that there has been an "alarming increase...
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