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Re: Splenda

Post by chocolate » 25th Mar, '09, 09:29

no one can live without chocolate!
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Re: Splenda

Post by Satellite » 25th Mar, '09, 09:41

SPLENDA® is the brand name for the ingredient sucralose. It is made through a patented, multi-step process that starts with sugar and converts it to a no calorie, non-carbohydrate sweetener. The process selectively replaces three hydrogen-oxygen groups on the sugar molecule with three chlorine atoms. Chlorine is present naturally in many of the foods and beverages that we eat and drink every day ranging from lettuce, mushrooms and table salt. In the case of sucralose, its addition converts sucrose to sucralose, which is essentially inert. The result is an exceptionally stable sweetener that tastes like sugar, but without sugar's calories. After consumption, sucralose passes through the body without being broken down for energy, so it has no calories, and the body does not recognize it as a carbohydrate.

No calories.. but hardly natural!

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Re: Splenda

Post by nev » 25th Mar, '09, 09:43

chocolate wrote:no one can live without chocolate!
Some things are better than chocolate! [smilie=kiss.gif] [smilie=kiss.gif]

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Re: Splenda

Post by canuck » 25th Mar, '09, 15:27

nev wrote:
canuck wrote:why do you use sweeteners? *just curious*
Because I'm "allergic" to sugar, as in, it makes me fat. :mrgreen:
[smilie=kiss.gif] an honest answer :D

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