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Our No Sugar Added Saskatoon jam is made with a sweetener called Xylitol.  Xylitol is a sugar alcohol made from either birch trees or non-GMO corn.  This sweetener does not cause an insulin spike like regular sugar does and therefore is approved for use by diabetics from Diabetes Canada.   We choose this sweetener after trying all the other artificial sweeteners out there like Stevia, aspartame, etc.  Xylitol did not have that nasty metallic after-taste which is so prevalent with other sweeteners.  The only downside is that it is 16 times the price of sugar and it has to be used 1 cup for 1 cup as a substitute for sugar.  Unfortunately, this means our no added sugar products are little more expensive that our regular sugar-based products, but well worth it as they taste great!