Eating Foods with Xylitol Can Be a Risk to Your Heart

Re:Eating Foods with Xylitol Can Be a Risk to Your Heart by beedeebeedee on Sunday July 28, 2024 @12:32PM (#41094222)

It's a traditional drink in areas with birch forests. Just like you would probably not hear anyone talking about consuming sumac tea if you had been living in New York for 10+ years, you would probably need to be more deeply integrated with the older indigenous culture to hear about it.

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Re:Eating Foods with Xylitol Can Be a Risk to Your Heart by piva00 on Sunday July 28, 2024 @04:33PM (#41095765)

That's what strange to me, I'm friends with a Sámi, family are herders of reindeer in the north, visited them a few times and never heard of birch water.

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Re:Eating Foods with Xylitol Can Be a Risk to Your Heart by beedeebeedee on Sunday July 28, 2024 @07:03PM (#41096657)

That's interesting. I think the Sami tap birch trees, but don't know for sure. I know it's still done in Finland and Russia, but it might not be an important part of Sami culture.

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Re:Eating Foods with Xylitol Can Be a Risk to Your Heart by piva00 on Monday July 29, 2024 @09:06AM (#41100161)

Thanks for the info, I'm definitely going to ask them about it next time we meet :)

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