Lactitol monohydrateProduct ingredient for Lactitol

Lactitol, also known as 4-β-D-galactopyranosyl-D-glucitol, is a sugar alcohol synthesized from lactose.³ It is used in food manufacturing as a nutritive sweetener and is approximately 35% as sweet as table sugar (i.e. sucrose).¹ Clinically, lactitol has been investigated for use as an osmotic laxative and, along with other non-absorbable disaccharides such as lactulose, in the treatment of hepatic encephalopathy in patients with cirrhosis.^2,3

Pizensy, an oral lactitol powder for solution, was approved by the FDA for use in chronic idiopathic constipation in February 2020.⁴