alywest
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Don't mean to be a party pooper but....
I think her concern is xylitol products are cheaper to produce from corn (which may or may not be GMO-free) rather than from birch bark. The Truth Abouth Birch Xylitol
Corn and Birch bark are natural products, but it is in the manufacturing process and the hydrogenation process of sugar alcohols which requires a catalyst and apparently Raney nickel is used in the manufacturing process and this would pose risks with heavy metal contamination. This is also what she is concerned with.
We know the health dangers of hydrogenated oils and I am now having second thoughts about this. Whilst I don't swallow the xylitol sugar I am swishing it around in my mouth up to 5 minutes at a time, several times a day. It now worries me finding this is how xylitol is manufactured.
Xylitol: Not as Sweet As It's Cracked Up to Be - The Healthy Home Economist
Production of polyalcohol at high-pressure hydrogenation of cane sugar and hydrolyzed amides - ScienceDirect
Thoughts anyone?
I did see that too but justified it because of the not swallowing thing. Does nickel absorb transdermally? I guess that's the question. As for my kids who are too young to not swallow, it's back to earthpaste.