Xlear Xylosweet Bag, 5-Pound
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Customer Reviews of Xlear Xylosweet Bag, 5-Pound
Customer Review: Mine had a chlorine like smell and more aftertaste than other brands I've tried.
Summary: 3 Stars
This brand of xylitol, I bought two bags, STUPID ME, smells like pool water and has more of a taste to it than other brands I have tried.
I wonder if residual chemicals from the processing were left in high concentrations!!!!
I bought two bags, spent fifty bucks. Now I have to eat it. :(
It gives me coffee a weird flavor when the previous brands worked without being detected. I have gone back to using regular sugar, which I am addicted to. I bought this to break free from table sugar and I am afraid to bake with it.
I used it in a carrot cake and the flavor was less pronounced in the cake itself, but in the icing, which was a simple glaze with cream cheese added, it tasted very unpleasant. I am a professional pastry chef and I had plans to use xylitol in my foods and help spread the message of xylitol in America. If I can't get solid quality xylitol in large quantities, I don't know how that will happen.
I'm going to keep making things with it. Maybe using it in desserts with strong flavors like chocolate will make it less appalling. But I won't dare put it in my coffee again. I'd hate to use splenda, because I don't believe in using chemical sweeteners, but I'd have to buy a separate brand of xylitol for my drinks and this stuff isn't cheap.
And yes, I experienced stomach cramps from this brand. I was used to Now Foods brand (I think that's what the brand is called,) and when I switched to this, I got cramps again. I guess they may be different enough to also affect my body differently...
I hope this brand is safe!
Edited to add: Weeks after this review I contacted the company and they picked up my bags via UPS and sent me two more with very little smell whatsoever. And the taste was greatly improved. They said they would test my old bags but they never told me what they found after testing them. I am just now finishing up my second replacement bag and I am very satisfied with it and their customer service.
Customer Review: XyloSweet gave me and my two kids diarrhea!
Summary: 1 Stars
I was excited to find a natural sugar substitute when I came across Xylitol. When I got it, my kids and I made lemonade: lemon juice, water and XyloSweet. About 45 minutes later, halfway through lunch, I noticed my 6 year old daughter stopped eating her lunch, and she didn't look too good. She told me she didn't feel good and so I put her down for a nap. Ten minutes later, my son didn't feel good either. Long story short: my daughter got diarrhea, and luckily, because she hadn't had that much lemonade, her diarrhea wasnt too severe. Unfortuneately for my five year old son, who had a lot more lemonade to drink, he first started throwing up, and then also started having the runs--both at the same time! Poor kid. About the time I almost had them both settled down, my stomach was churning, and next thing you know I had to rush to the bathroom, for the first of what would end up being nine trips.
In between bathroom trips, I Googled: "Xylitol reactions" and was surprised at the number of listings that popped up. I found that supposedly about 20% of people that try xylitol will have a reaction. I think that figure is on the low side because my two kids are adopted from totally different sets of parents. So when you consider that the three of us have different genetics, and yet we all had a problem with this stuff, I'd say that probably more than 20% of people that try this, will have a reaction.
BUYER BEWARE! Xlear - Xylosweet 5lb, 5 lb, 1 bag
Customer Review: Sanguinary awfulness
Summary: 1 Stars
Having read many books on this subject, the epilogue of Napoleonic Wars, Mr. Summerville's book seemed to pick up on some loose strands not explored by Lincke in "Napoleon's Generals" and to be an index to more recent compilations, such as Atkins' encyclopaedic work on Waterloo or Barbero's "The Battle", a very recent and definitive written work. Outside of his comments on General Adams, there is nothing here you cannot obtain either through well written books, which his is definitely not, or on the internet through the Napoleonic series for free. The temptation to buy this on the off chance that he would say something about the absent General Alix de Vaux, apparently a former commander in Westphalia for Jerome Bonaparte previously. Hoefschroer gave more details about Alix being at a depot outside of Paris when the Prussians marched against the city after the Waterloo battle, but it would have been nice to have had a greater biography. The thumbnail sketch of Foy was abysmal and even his English subjects are hurried or trivialized by Summerville's lack of discipline where writing history is concerned. Find a copy of Dix's French language history of Napoleonic generals in the library or dig through Phipp's History of the Revolutionary war if you want details, buy Haywthornethwait as he is very knowledgeable and readable, but if you crave a highly priced rag of anecdotes you already know, this can fill your S-surnamed author's niche as well as the next. Better off again with Segur's tome to be certain.Customer Review: Not too good to be true!
Summary: 5 Stars
My cousin sent me home with a sample packet of this stuff (I was having problems losing weight and my battle with sugar was severely hindering my goals). I remember thanking her and thinking about her words of "It has no after-taste AND is all-natural", I thought "YEAH, right!" and didn't try it until about 3 months later.
I thought, with the name "Xylitol" that it HAD to be a chemical compound, but because she was into all-natural health like me AND she is super tiny, that she must not be lying!
Who knew that such a tiny packet could finally change my life. I am finally optimistic in my battle of the buldge because now, there is not only an alternative sweetener to sugar, but that it is absolutely VOID of ANY after-taste AND actually anti-bacterial??!!!
I ramble, but seriously, I am chewing the ("Spry") gum that Xlear sent me as a sample after purchasing this 5lb bag of Xlyo-Sweet and what a yummy piece of gum! My mouth feels clean, even after 8 in the morning and having my 'sweetened' cup of coffee, they almost feel like I just hopped out of the dentist chair!
Xlear is new to Amazon and they want to widen their customer base, so I am going to go give them a good review, as I received my order SUPER fast AND with sample gum :-)
Customer Review: tastes good in my tea, no icky breath after drinking, sinuses clearing up
Summary: 4 Stars
So far i am in love! It tastes normal, not like those artifical sweeteners do. and i don't have that pooky-yucko breath that sugar or honey gives you. also my mouth feels nice & clean.
the coolest thing is i noticed my throat is clearing & my congested sinuses are loosening up a lot (i usually have a lot of sinus congestion every day. bad allergies & eating lots of sugar contribute to that) I first noticed i was sneezing a few times, then i noticed that my throat was clearing up. i chewed the gum again & noticed MORE of this effect. It's amazing! so i hopped online & did more research on xyltol & read that it is used as a nasal wash & to clear up ear infections. I believe it after how i feel jsut chewing some xylitol based gum & drinking one cup of tea sweetened with a teaspoon of it i see a HUGE inprovement. I am so delighted!
i just used this for the first time tonight so i hesitate to give a 5 star rating as i need to give it more time. I want to make sure it doesn't make me feel funny or that there are no bad side effects.
but so far so good!