Low-Calorie Sweetener Sans the Tooth Decay! Experts Develop Cheap, Sustainable Way to Make Polyalcohols

Researchers from the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ) in Tarragona, Spain and ETH Zurich, Switzerland successfully developed a process to get sweeteners, such as mannitol or ribitol, from highly available, affordable, and sustainable sources like glucose or arabinose.