What is the sweetness of our sugar-free gum?

people like to chew gum when they are bored to ease the loneliness of their mouths. Sugar-free chewing gum is popular with consumers. Sugar-free chewing gum is also sweet because it contains sweet ingredients such as glycolycol.
some people may see the name glycol, which sounds "scientific", and think it's a chemically synthetic substance. In fact, lycool is a natural sweetener, sweetness and sucrose similar, widely used in nature. Many plants, especially birch trees, corn cores, sugar cane slag content is high, so the production of glycolycol mainly with these as raw materials.。 Mlycolycol is also a carbohydrate made up of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, which also release heat after oxidation in the body. However, the metabolic process is different from the general sugar, do not need insulin promotion, can go directly into the body to provide us with energy, the body ingested glycolycol, the blood glucose content increased very little, not enough to cause the rise of blood sugar values. It is often used as a substitute for sugar and is popular with people with diabetes.。 In addition, glycol also has the role of anti-caries, mlycolycol can not be used by bacteria that produce caries, inhibit the production of acid in the mouth, maintain the neutral environment of the mouth, prevent teeth from being eroded by acid, can effectively prevent tooth decay.
At present, glycol is mainly used to increase the sweetness of food products, such as sugar-free chewing gum, icing sugar chocolate, woody alcohol bread, woody alcohol biscuits, soda bubble water, sugar-free flavor yogurt and other foods. Diabetics can alleviate the "sweetening pain" by eating some glycolycol foods appropriately.。