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sorbitol, a common sugar alcohol used in “low-calorie” foods, can behave much like fructose once inside the body, potentially contributing to liver strain and metabolic dysfunction.
Sweeteners such as aspartame, found in Equal packets, sucralose (Splenda), and various sugar alcohols are often viewed as better choices than foods containing refined sugar (glucose).
However, new research is beginning to question that belief. Recent findings show that the sugar alcohol sorbitol may not be as harmless as many assumed.
The key bit missed in this summary is that sorbitol is apparently broken down by gut bacteria-- if you have them. If you don’t or if you eat so much sorbitol to overwhelm the gut bacteria’s processing, your liver will do the processing and it is there that it gets converted to fructose. And that is apparently hard on your liver and can give you liver disease.
But it is important to note that this study was conducted upon zebrafish.
in zebrafish