I have gotten a lot of questions about this over the last few months so I figured that I would write an article about it to help shed some light on this new sweetening phenomenon that is erythritol. Have you ever had some of those sugar free Reese cups from Walgreen? Or how about those Turtles pecan and caramel chocolates? Remember how you ate the whole bag and then had the runs an hour later? Or perhaps you knew of this amazing laxative effect and played pranks on your friends by giving them these treats and watching the resulting fireworks 
. Err. Ahem. Well then you have probably had erythritol and didn't even realize it.
Erythritol is actually a natural sweetener unlike the overpowering sucralose that has been, in my opinion, highly overused in todays commercial juices. Erythritol was discovered by a chemist named John Stenhouse in 1948. However he is most well known for his invention of the first gas mask. Perhaps the constant stomach rumbling and flatulence from the erythritol provided the motivation? We will never know, but back to the topic at hand. Erythritol (2R,3S)-butane-1,2,3,4-tetraol) can occur naturally in plant matter in small quantities, however, the erythritol that we consume, is produced from corn starches that are extracted, then fermented with yeast to produce a sugar alcohol. And before I bore you to death with more, too much scientific, mumbo jumbo, here is one more fun fact. Erythritol, much like that jug of pure Nicotine that I have in my lab, can be used as an insecticide. Somehow, I can already hear the FDA saying that e liquid has a dangerous chemical pesticide in it called ERYTHRITOL!!!!. ( see? we need to change this crazy sounding name) Which brings me to another point. If you don't like that commercial juice that you just spent 25 bucks on, you can always spray it on your tomato plants next spring to get rid of the fruit flies?
But enough of that. How does it taste, How much does it cost, And where can I buy it? Well. I can tell you that Erythritol straight from the bottle tastes to me just like sweet syrup. I get no after taste from it and it does not seem to gunk up my coils anymore than if I had not used it. It is only about 60% as sweet as sucrose though so it won't give you that incredible sugar tongue sensation when you vape it, which is fine with me. In my mixes, I tend to use it between .5 and 1% to add a sweet note to my flavors. To Bend them into a candy like flavor add 2% erythritol and 1% ethyl maltol. Be aware, however that ethyl maltol will dumb down and mute your flavor somewhat so going over 2% will just prove to destroy all of your hard work anyway.
Erythritol is not that expensive. You can purchase it from ecig express as a stand alone sweetener which I have purchased once in the 10 ml configuration, and have since upgraded my purchase to a 30 ml bottle. Also another thing to note, is that it is suspended in VG instead of PG so you will need to make that distinction in the ejuice me up app.
And with that, I hope that someone will make this a sticky so that people will be able to link to this article in the future. I also hope that you will give this Natural sweetener, with the chemically sounding name a try. You just might find yourself ordering a 30 ml bottle too.
. Err. Ahem. Well then you have probably had erythritol and didn't even realize it.Erythritol is actually a natural sweetener unlike the overpowering sucralose that has been, in my opinion, highly overused in todays commercial juices. Erythritol was discovered by a chemist named John Stenhouse in 1948. However he is most well known for his invention of the first gas mask. Perhaps the constant stomach rumbling and flatulence from the erythritol provided the motivation? We will never know, but back to the topic at hand. Erythritol (2R,3S)-butane-1,2,3,4-tetraol) can occur naturally in plant matter in small quantities, however, the erythritol that we consume, is produced from corn starches that are extracted, then fermented with yeast to produce a sugar alcohol. And before I bore you to death with more, too much scientific, mumbo jumbo, here is one more fun fact. Erythritol, much like that jug of pure Nicotine that I have in my lab, can be used as an insecticide. Somehow, I can already hear the FDA saying that e liquid has a dangerous chemical pesticide in it called ERYTHRITOL!!!!. ( see? we need to change this crazy sounding name) Which brings me to another point. If you don't like that commercial juice that you just spent 25 bucks on, you can always spray it on your tomato plants next spring to get rid of the fruit flies?
But enough of that. How does it taste, How much does it cost, And where can I buy it? Well. I can tell you that Erythritol straight from the bottle tastes to me just like sweet syrup. I get no after taste from it and it does not seem to gunk up my coils anymore than if I had not used it. It is only about 60% as sweet as sucrose though so it won't give you that incredible sugar tongue sensation when you vape it, which is fine with me. In my mixes, I tend to use it between .5 and 1% to add a sweet note to my flavors. To Bend them into a candy like flavor add 2% erythritol and 1% ethyl maltol. Be aware, however that ethyl maltol will dumb down and mute your flavor somewhat so going over 2% will just prove to destroy all of your hard work anyway.
Erythritol is not that expensive. You can purchase it from ecig express as a stand alone sweetener which I have purchased once in the 10 ml configuration, and have since upgraded my purchase to a 30 ml bottle. Also another thing to note, is that it is suspended in VG instead of PG so you will need to make that distinction in the ejuice me up app.
And with that, I hope that someone will make this a sticky so that people will be able to link to this article in the future. I also hope that you will give this Natural sweetener, with the chemically sounding name a try. You just might find yourself ordering a 30 ml bottle too.
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