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A lot of "diet" bars and sugar-free protein mixes are sweetened with sugar alcohols like Xylitol or Sorbitol. Your upper GI tract can't actually digest these sugars, but there's plenty of bacteria in your lower GI tract which digest them readily and produce a large quantity of gas.

Sugar free gum has the same effect for the same reason, at least if you chew enough of it.




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