I made the bag-of-Russell-Stovers mistake once, too, and that was enough! I had a terrible flu/sinus thing about six months back, and when I'm sick, all I want to eat is sweet stuff. I was feeling too wretched to want to cook or eat real food, so I just kept popping a truffle here, a truffle there, and prettty soon the whole bag was gone. However bad you think the maltitol effect is by itself, I promise it's a whole lot worse with exploding sinuses and a wretched cough! Thankfully, the codeine in my cough syrup took the edge off things a bit, but it still wasn't an experience I'd wish on my worst enemy...