Splenda!!! Friend or Foe

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  • maserati185
    maserati185 Posts: 263 Member
    I'm no expert, but I use Truvia. Sold in most grocery stores and a Stevia/alcohol sugars blend. Liquid stevia tasted more bitter than sweet to me.
  • FearAnLoathing
    FearAnLoathing Posts: 4,852 Member
    My second cousins childhoods best friends mother in law knows a dr who said its fine.
  • BrewerGeorge
    BrewerGeorge Posts: 397 Member
    I use Sweet N Low (Saccharin) almost exclusively when I drink iced tea because it dissolves better in cold liquids instead of sitting at the bottom like sugar does. Also sweetens better in smaller quantities than any other sweetener I have tried. Yes, it's a chemical. And it's been around for over 140 years. I'm sure many people condemn it too, but I feel safe using it.

    Just because things are natural, doesn't make them safe. Arsenic, cyanide, rattlesnakes, and molten lava are all natural, but it doesn't mean you want any of them in your kitchen.
    I don't trust sucralose, but that's mostly because I don't think there's enough evidence either way to have convinced me yet.

    I use saccharine and occasionally truvia, but I'm just as likely to use less real sugar.
  • catbrand
    catbrand Posts: 227 Member
    I've tried them all, ok I lied, I've tried splenda, saccharine, stevia and another one (can't remember which) and I came back to sugar in the end.

    Sugars not great, but I find that by allowing myself to eat real sugar, I make better choices about what I will eat. I might eat a small slice of a really nice cake and really enjoy it, rather than make and eat a whole cake with splenda that didn't taste that great anyway, but was low calorie (but probably high carb and high fat).

    At least I know where the sugar came from too.
  • Malani2010
    Malani2010 Posts: 245
    My second cousins childhoods best friends mother in law knows a dr who said its fine.

    HA HA HA HA HA LOOOOVVVVEEEE IT!!!!! :)
  • Grokette
    Grokette Posts: 3,330 Member
    NOBODY USES PURE STEVIA! Most of the stevia products are sugar alcohol! Everything if overdone can be bad for you; ESPECIALLY being so neurotic about every little thing you consume.

    Yes, some of us do. Try floating a leaf in a glass of tea.
  • Hope228
    Hope228 Posts: 341 Member
    My second cousins childhoods best friends mother in law knows a dr who said its fine.

    lol
  • Tiffanydepiano
    Tiffanydepiano Posts: 169 Member
    It's my friend. I'm a "better living through chemistry" kind of person. (another poster)

    Being fat can give you cancer. Honestly, you can be frighetened of every little added chemical or you can just move on and put a little sweetener in you cereal which was most likely made form grain that was hybridized and genetically manipulated to create a "super grain" that repels insects because is produced a hormone that makes them stay away. Much more frightening but I'm not afraid of my Special K either.

    The only way to avoid all that is to eat a 100% organic diet from heirloom seeds and meat from animals that are at least 3 generations organic and untreated. I don't but it works for some.
  • rachemn
    rachemn Posts: 407 Member
    Let the comments begin...


    I was taking a deep breath as I hit "post" I knew it would be a rough ride. lol

    You are one brave woman, my friend! Next post you should ask if you should eat your exercise calories...LOL

    LMAO!!
  • O2Bslimagain
    O2Bslimagain Posts: 120 Member
    Here's what I think. If you want to go sugar free than go sugar free that includes all sweeteners whether fake or not. If you want natural go with honey, maple syrup, Stevia or Agave syrup. If you want chlorinated go with sugar and splenda. There is one that I like and it seems to be natural and that is Xylitol.

    If I was going to choose between sugar and splenda I would do sugar. You could also purchase white sugar at the health food store. I believe it is better than the white sugar you buy in the store.

    Good luck, Tiffany
  • Terriann7
    Terriann7 Posts: 78
    What about Agave Nectar? It can be bought organically and taste yummy. I am against chemicals disguised as "FDA approved food." Another FDA approved poison is partially hydrogenated oils. Wow- look that up some time. Yikes!
  • Malani2010
    Malani2010 Posts: 245
    It's my friend. I'm a "better living through chemistry" kind of person. (another poster)

    Being fat can give you cancer. Honestly, you can be frighetened of every little added chemical or you can just move on and put a little sweetener in you cereal which was most likely made form grain that was hybridized and genetically manipulated to create a "super grain" that repels insects because is produced a hormone that makes them stay away. Much more frightening but I'm not afraid of my Special K either.

    The only way to avoid all that is to eat a 100% organic diet from heirloom seeds and meat from animals that are at least 3 generations organic and untreated. I don't but it works for some.

    I'm by no means worried about eating organic. I was just wondering after getting gripped out at on FB about it. lol I think breathing would give you cancer. We should all live in bubbles then we would all be fine. I'm more afraid for not living for God and going to hell.
  • Jennieam
    Jennieam Posts: 300 Member
    Unfortunately, Stevia doesn't work well with baking. I do use Splenda in moderation. (Not daily or even weekly, or in large amounts)

    I used Splenda in baking too ...
  • DannyMussels
    DannyMussels Posts: 1,842 Member
    My father came to this country when he was in his early teens..and diagnosed with diabetes soon after. Since then, he's consumed artificial sweetners in one form or another literally every day for nearly 50 years...and he is in amazing health.

    So do I.

    And I've never been fitter, stronger or sexier.

    Cancer's mad cause I'm stylin' on it.
  • jalenedyck
    jalenedyck Posts: 17 Member
    After adding Splenda to my baking for a few weeks, I found it made me very bloated. If you are already overweight, do you really want to look it? NO WAY! LOL. Agave and honey are great but have the same amount of calories as sugar so why bother? Stevia tastes weird. I have finally landed on Xylitol. It is 0 calorie and tastes like a very mild sugar. It is supposed to be good for your teeth too but don't take too much of it as with anything. Moderation is key.
  • Ruby11222
    Ruby11222 Posts: 114
    I won't read any of these replies, sounds like it may get heated.

    I hate that all our foods contain these tremendously harmful chemicals. So before I ramble, FOE. Light is fine, but not "sugar free" because they contain these chemicals.
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