xylotol is a sugar alcohol, which WILL impact your blood sugar, les then table sugar, but none the less will still have an affect, and as with all sugar alcohols, if you use too much, it will have (has stated on the label) "a laxitave effect"..
http://www.lowcarbluxury.com/sugaralcohols.html
here is a place you can read more about it. because it has a little less of an impact on you blood sugar, and is not classified as sugar, the loop hole in the law says that a food that is made with this can be called sugar free, when in essence you are just eating a different kind of sugar....
