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Splenda no calorie sweetener packets are individual portions found in the familiar yellow packets. They are a great way to sweeten beverages and sprinkle on cereal, fresh fruit, and more. Each packet of Splenda no calori… More >>
$16.57
Splenda No Calorie Sweetener, Granular, Individual Packets, 700-Count Box
August 11th, 2010
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[Note: This review has been attached to another Splenda product and some have found it to be helpful, so I'm reposting it on this product.]
Don’t get me wrong — I’m not some nut job who thinks this stuff will give you cancer. I’m just really miffed at the fact that Splenda has plenty of carbohydrates in it — 24 grams per cup!! They get away with this by setting their serving size to 1 tsp, which is 0.5g. Would you believe that in one half gram of product there is less than one gram of carbohydrate!? No way!!
The sweetener sucralose is not a carbohydrate, but since it’s 600x as sweet as sugar, they need to bulk it up to make it measure like sugar. But all the maltodextrin they use for filler is carbohydrates.
This could really screw up somebody on Atkins’ Induction phase. For example, the day before I learned this, I made some Kool-Aid with Splenda. I didn’t know that in 2 quarts I was drinking down 24 carbs!
What to do? Find somebody online who sells liquid sucralose. They use water as the filler, it’s super-concentrated still, and it truly has 0 carbs. I look forward to the day when McNeil Nutritionals meets the demand for ZERO-carb Splenda. (That’s 0.0g, not 0.49g!)
[The liquid sucralose I currently use is Sweetzfree and I also had good experience with ZCS.]
Rating: 1 / 5
No calorie sweetener tastes like sugar. Best price around for this, much better then equal or any of the others.
Rating: 5 / 5
I could not use any of the not-to-be-named pre-Splenda sweeteners. I simply could not tolerate their taste AND the after-taste. I’ve been a Splenda user ever since it became available because… well… the taste is VERY close to sugar’s own and, as far as I know, there are NO side effects.
My understanding of the Splenda technology is that the process starts with what is supposed to be a ‘sugar’ molecule and then ONE atom is replaced with another which makes it impossible to digest so it simply passes through your digestive tract. You get zero calories, good taste and no side effects.
So… what’s not to like? The price? That’s were the wisdom of buying these large but not too heavy Splenda boxes comes from. Buy in bulk and save
. 1000-count and 2000-count boxes are available.
I NEVER put anything sweet into my tea or my coffee – a habit I probably developed during those dark, sad, pre-Splenda days – but, when it comes to Cappuccino… it’s a different story. I am reaching for the little yellow packets. A box of these lasts me for a long, long time.
Rating: 5 / 5
Splenda No Calorie Sweetener, Granulated, in packets.
I like the taste, after taste and texture of this product. I love sweets, but I am working on losing weight. I exercise every day, but that is not enough. I had been adding a lot of granulated Splenda (and the granulated generic sucralose sweetener) to my diet drinks, fruit, juice and almost everything. It says zero calories, so a big time sugar junkie like me should be able to eat just as much or more than the amount of sugar that I would have eaten and still lose weight. But it was no calories, so I used even more. Suddenly my whole world was sweet.
But I was gaining weight and it didn’t add up. I looked up sucralose and went to the Splenda web site. There it explained that legally, if a serving has less than 5 calories then they are entitled to call it zero calories. But the vendor decides how much is in a serving. If you make the serving size small enough, any food can be labeled zero calorie (that’s an industry serving regulation if I ever heard of one). Splenda says the serving size is 1 teaspoon and as long as it has less than 5 calories they can call it zero calories. Sucralose by itself really does have nearly zero calories in any amount I would use. But I was still gaining weight.
So I looked again. The numbers just were not adding up. What else is in there? It sure isn’t pure sucralose or there would be a lot less product in the bag. Well, the filler is malto dextrin. This is a safe well known sugar that has been in food products for decades. It has calories, but not as much as table sugar. It’s about 1/8 of the calories of regular table sugar. That is a significant reduction. But it is not zero. If you consume this entire box you will consume about 1400 calories.
Rating: 4 / 5
In most retail stores, a box of 100 packets of Splenda cost at least $3.99. Do the math and start saving!
Rating: 5 / 5