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    "inchikey": "UNXHWFMMPAWVPI-ZXZARUISSA-N",
    "pubchem_cid": 222285
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  "functional_class": "Sweetener",
  "summary": "Erythritol is a sugar alcohol about seventy percent as sweet as sugar. Unlike the other polyols it is absorbed and then excreted largely unchanged, so it contributes little energy and causes less digestive upset.",
  "derivation_summary": "Produced by fermenting glucose, normally from maize starch, with osmophilic yeasts, then crystallising the product. It also occurs naturally in some fruit and in fermented foods.",
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      "provision_count": 0,
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            "ref": "CXS 192-1995 Table Three, INS 968",
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          "conditions": "GSFA notes: 478",
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            "ref": "CXS 192-1995 Table One, INS 968, food category 12.2.2",
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