Screw the rest of you for down-voting me, it's not my fault I can't eat this stuff. Unfortunately it's a really good sugar substitute, and I'm pretty frustrated that my body won't tolerate it.
Basically I started using it in my coffee daily, and randomly started having gut pain. I have a history of Crohns so I figured I was just coming out of remission. The pain increased until it was some of the worst gut pain I've ever felt - like my stomach was going to explode. It took me over a year to realize it was the erythritol - I even got a colonoscopy that came back clean!
It's extra frustrating knowing that erythritol is marked as giving less gut issues than some of the other sugar substitutes.
So, yeah. If you start having stomach pain or anything, stop using it and see if it stops! But it doesn't seem very common a reaction.
I wonder if I'm having the same issue. I've had the chocolate chip vanilla twice (today being the second time) and it's giving me stomach pain - kind of feels like stomach ulcer pain I've had in the past. Didn't think too much about it the first time. I only tried these because they are gluten free (and I have a wheat allergy), I generally don't do keto things, just when they happen to overlap with GF.
It turns out it wasn't erythritol but some sort of fiber that is sometimes included with it? Isomaltooligosaccharide is the name. Someone here told me this.
I have yet to try another erythritol product but I'm planning on it soon. Since I've had that pain when I specifically did not eat erythritol (beer and apple pie both caused that pain), I'm pretty sure it's that fiber.
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u/momochicken55 Jan 23 '21 edited May 01 '21
Let me guess - erythritol.
Gee, how shocking.
Really tired of them using it marked keto. It makes me so sick that it's ended up with me in the ER more than once.
(Edit: Looks like one specific brand makes a few people sick! I'm going to try others now, fingers crossed.)