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Uses: Typical products containing Mannitol are low calorie sugar-free foods, mustard, puddings, sauces, frozen fish. Other Names: 1,2,3,4,5,6-hexanehexol, mannite, manna sugar.
Possible allergen, not permitted in infant foods due to its ability to cause diarrhoea and kidney dysfunction, also may cause nausea, vomiting.
Description: Mannitol is an artificial sweetener and humectant; derived from glucose and is a sugar alcohol derived from seaweed or the manna ash tree, but manufactured commercially by hydrogenation of invert sugar (glucose and fructose), monosaccharides and sucrose.