Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A white, sweetish, crystalline alcohol, C6H8(OH)6, found in various berries and fruits or prepared synthetically and used as a flavoring agent, a sugar substitute for people with diabetes, and a moisturizer in cosmetics and other products.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as sorbite, 1, which term it has now superseded.
Wiktionary
- n. organic chemistry A sugar alcohol (2R,3S,4S,5S)-hexane-1,2,3,4,5,6-hexol used as an artificial sweetener
Etymologies
- From sorbus ("service tree") + -itol ("polyhydric alcohols") (Wiktionary)
- sorb2 + -it(e)2 + -ol1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Some sugars are even harder to find and go by the name sorbitol, xylitol, mannitol, and malitol.”
“Ion exchange resins, mixed with a cathartic called sorbitol, have long been used to treat hyperkalemia.”
“Do be ware that sometimes, for instance, diabetic or sugar-free products contain something called sorbitol, which again, is a sugar alcohol level, but contained, excuse me, ingested in high amounts may affect your gastrointestinal tract and cause some discomfort.”
“If there is an excess of glucose in the body from high carbohydrates and it’s converted into an excess of sorbitol, which is then stored in the eye, cataracts are the result.”
“Check the other foods you eat, too: Some people develop gas because they lack the enzyme to digest dairy products; others have a tough time with sugar alcohols such as sorbitol and maltitol; and starches (except for rice) can make you as gassy as an OPEC nation.”
“In addition, artificial sweeteners such as sorbitol that is found in some gums can give you gas.”
“Glycerin also competes on a cost basis in most markets with some other chemicals, such as sorbitol, propylene glycol and pentaerythritol, so demand and pricing swings are usually minimal.”
“Likewise, products that contain sugar alcohols - such as sorbitol, xylitol and mannitol - aren't necessarily low in carbohydrates or calories.”
“Ajisen said that since January of last year, Chinese authorities have allowed the use of sorbitol in noodles.”
“The company confirmed the report and said it stopped using sorbitol immediately after the Chinese authorities brought an action in 2009.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sorbitol’.
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Open List: The World of Corn
Corn-related words and phrases. This versatile crop is so important to cultures and economies - from most basic indigenous foodstuff and animal feed to source of biopolymer and biofuel.
seed corn, field corn, flint corn, sweet corn, biofuel, biopolymer, corn starch, modified corn starch, cornstarch, cornflour, polylactic acid, citric acid and 390 more...
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Gas-Inducing Foodstuffs
Foods that produce flatulence. List title a shameless filching of a fortuitous phrase yarb introduced in his definition of scotch egg. I know everyone has a few foods they avoid at certain times ...
scotch egg, cabbage, chili beans, garbanzo beans, chickpeas, hummus, pickled eggs, rutabaga, radish, jerusalem artichoke, brussels sprouts, cauliflower and 42 more...
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Sweetness, I Was Only Joking
A list of sweet foods and adjectives.
treacle, stevia, golden syrup, dulcet, cane sugar, demerara, molasses, nectar, agave, saccharine, candy, toothsome and 23 more...
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perijove, apolune, apsis, satellite, evection, domain, cislunar, Desdemona, apastron, Kohoutek, mascon, Arrakis and 21 more...
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