Thus, the sugar alcohol idly begins to accumulate in the lens.

Sorbitol, also known as glucitol, is a sugar alcohol, which the human body metabolizes slowly.

The more complex sugar alcohols are for the most part nontoxic.

With continued use, most people develop a degree of tolerance to sugar alcohols and no longer experience these symptoms.

The table above presents the relative sweetness and food energy of the most widely-used sugar alcohols.

The sugar alcohol cannot be metabolized by oral bacteria, so does not contribute to tooth decay.

It is a kind of sugar alcohol.

The rags in their necks stank sharply of sugar alcohol.

It is a common protecting group for sugars and sugar alcohols, a simple example being solketal.

In the 1950s he and his students turned their attention to the metabolism of the polyols (sugar alcohols).