"Sugar Alcohols" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Polyhydric alcohols having no more than one hydroxy group attached to each carbon atom. They are formed by the reduction of the carbonyl group of a sugar to a hydroxyl group.(From Dorland, 28th ed)
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D013402
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.033.800 D09.853
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Position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: use of nutritive and nonnutritive sweeteners. J Acad Nutr Diet. 2012 May; 112(5):739-58.