It stimulates the salivary glands, and saliva does prevent tooth decay.
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Preflight_Tomato@lemm.ee 5 months agoIIRC it doesn’t do anything prevent tooth decay, it just doesn’t cause it, unlike sugar and many other sugar substitutes.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Koike@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
A quick google search, xylitol and tooth decay, should convince you otherwise. Plenty of scientific papers to dive in