different between polyol vs maltitol

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From poly- +? -ol.

polyol (plural polyols)

(organic chemistry) Any organic compound having three or more hydroxyl functional groups; a polyhydric alcohol.
- 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA 2003, p. 258:
  a team at the Ames Research Center in California announced that the Murchison rock also contained complex strings of sugars called polyols, which had not been found off the Earth before.

maltite +? -ol

maltitol (countable and uncountable, plural maltitols)

(organic chemistry) a disaccharide polyol used as a sugar substitute, produced through the hydrogenation of maltose

maltitol m (plural malitoles)

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