“Birch tree water may have some health benefits in that it has electrolytes,” nutritionist Rachel Beller said on “Good Morning America.” “It also has xylitol, which may prevent tooth decay.

Xylitol is a non-sugar sweetener extracted from the birch tree. It is a five-carbon polyol that has effectively demonstrated itself to be cariogenic, by its action of neutralizing plaque acidity ...

In that sense, it provides only empty calories. Xylitol can be processed from trees like birch or from a plant fiber called xylan. Even though sugar alcohols are technically carbohydrates ...

What do you think about xylitol? It does seem strange to me to be drinking something apparently squeezed out of a birch tree. On the other hand, my husband loved maple syrup, and I never thought ...

For commercial use, however, xylitol is made from corncobs, birch trees or genetically engineered bacteria. “It’s sold as a so-called natural sweetener, and because xylitol doesn’t spike ...

The ancient Finnish habit of chewing gum surged in the 1980s when Finnish scientists discovered that gum containing xylitol, a natural sweetener found in plant tissue including birch trees ...