Why Erythritol Tastes Cold left off on a specific split: erythritol delivers its menthol-adjacent chill only when its crystals are dissolving in the mouth, and a syrup where erythritol is already fully dissolved shouldn’t carry that note at all. That raises an obvious follow-up for anything syrupy — a tamarind-date chutney, a sweetened yogurt, a…
“How Net Carbs Are Actually Calculated” covered what happens to erythritol once it’s swallowed: absorbed in the small intestine, barely metabolized, mostly excreted unchanged, which is the reason the lab treats its net-carb contribution as close to zero. That’s the metabolic story. There’s a sensory story too, and it starts well before digestion — the…
How Net Carbs Are Actually Calculated (and Where Labels Lie) The Testing Protocol post gave the formula in one line: total carbohydrates minus fiber minus half of any sugar alcohols. That’s the number every scorecard in this lab runs on, so it’s worth being precise about where that formula comes from, why “half” and not…