Olestra has this miserable reputation for causing people to shit themselves in tower records. But one of the only independent studies that i found found that olestra actually gives people less gastro intestinal symptoms than other food addectives. Olestra consumption at levels far in excess of normal snacking conditions resulted in a gradual stool softening effect after several days of consumption. Did not meet any of the three objective measures of diarrhoea and did not increase gastro intestinal symptomsoleister have worse effects, but they haven't been subject to the same amount of scrutiny. Wof sorbitall does what we thought olestra did, and does it more acutely. The problem with olestra