SPLENDA HAS CALORIES!!! ARRRGGGHHHH!

I saw something in an old forum post on here the other day about Splenda having calories, so I've done some research online and found some information from a person on another weight loss who wrote to Splenda asking them if there was indeed calories in Splenda and was told BY SPLENDA THAT YES,

THERE ARE CALORIES IN SPLENDA!

(I confirmed this information through other sites as well)

Not a lot but when you use it like I do--and most diabetics do!--then it is going to add up! I've been putting 2 tblspoons in my coffee, plus 2 tblspoons in my cereal, plus a BUNCH in my ice tea (and that's after I've cut down on usage :ohwell: ). Just for my breakfast, I was consuming 24 calories and 6 carbs in the stuff.

I give notice that as of today, I am officially weaning myself off of Splenda!

The caloric and carbohydrate content for SPLENDA(R) Brand Sweetener is as follows:

SPLENDA(R) Granular
1 tsp = 0.5 gm carb = 2 calories
one half cup = 12 gm carb = 48 calories
1 cup = 24 gm carb = 96 calories

*1 tsp. = 1 serving

Packet of SPLENDA(R)
1 packet = .9 gm of carb = 4 calories

*1 packet has the sweetness of 2 tsp of sugar

Note: Per U.S. labeling laws, anything with less than 5 calories per serving, is properly labeled as "zero" or no-calorie.

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This came from Wiki:


Though marketed in the U.S. as a “No calorie sweetener,” Splenda products that also include bulking agents contain about 86% of the calories as the same mass of sugar (331 calories per 100 g vs. 387 calories per 100 g for sugar).[9] However, since Splenda is about 14.5% as dense as sugar, a given volume of Splenda has 12.4% the energy of the same volume of sugar.[10] When sucralose is added to commercial products such as diet drinks, the bulking agent is not present and no caloric energy is added.

Although the “nutritional facts” label on Splenda’s retail packaging states that a single serving of 0.5 gram (1 teaspoon or 5 milliliters) contains zero calories, Splenda actually contains 1.66 calories per teaspoon.[11] The individual, tear-open packages are 1 gram servings which therefore contain 3.31 calories. Such labeling is appropriate in the U.S. because the FDA’s regulations permit a product to be labeled as “zero calories” if the “food contains less than 5 calories per reference amount customarily consumed and per labeled serving.”[12] Because Splenda contains a relatively small amount of sucralose, little of which is metabolized, virtually all of Splenda’s caloric content derives from the highly fluffed dextrose or maltodextrin bulking agents that give Splenda its volume. Like other carbohydrates, dextrose and maltodextrin have 3.75 calories per gram.

I had NO idea!!!!!!!!! That really sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :sad:


Shore ~ will you add that to the database? Right now, if you select splenda packages it still comes up as zero calories! Thanks Shore for the good news

I think that the Splenda package does indeed have less than 1 calorie (or only a couple) so it can be listed as "calorie free" - it measures about a 1/4 of a teaspoon if you actually measure what is in the packet.

According to the info that came right from Splenda--the packs have 4 calories a piece--not less than 1