Splenda and Maltodextrin?

Greetings:

What's the theory on Splenda? They claim it's carb free, but it's stuffed
full of maltodextrin as a filler, which is almost as bad as straight glucose
from what I can tell. Thoughts?

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Peace,
Pen
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Penelope Baker wrote:

Greetings:

What's the theory on Splenda? They claim it's carb free, but it's stuffed
full of maltodextrin as a filler, which is almost as bad as straight glucose
from what I can tell. Thoughts?

--
Peace,
Pen
--
Pawbreakers - The Candy for Cats!
http://www.pawbreakers.com

No one said it was carb free. Read the packet. Any carb is as bad as a glucose
carb, but in a packet or teaspooon of Splenda there is less than one carb. I don'
recall exactly how much. The law states that if it is less than .5gm carbs it can
be called zero carbs! Of course we know they say 'The law is an ass!'

Irv
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There are 24 g. carb in a cup of powdered Splenda because of the
maltodextrin. Liquid Splenda is carb free, you can't buy it in stores in
the U.S. but you can order it he

www.sweetzfree.com


In ,
Penelope Baker stated
| Greetings:
|
| What's the theory on Splenda? They claim it's carb free, but it's
| stuffed full of maltodextrin as a filler, which is almost as bad as
| straight glucose from what I can tell. Thoughts?
|
| --
| Peace,
| Pen
| --
| Pawbreakers - The Candy for Cats!
| http://www.pawbreakers.com

Thank you!!!! :-)

--
Peace,
Pen
--
Pawbreakers - The Candy for Cats!
http://www.pawbreakers.com

"FOB" wrote in message
m...
There are 24 g. carb in a cup of powdered Splenda because of the
maltodextrin. Liquid Splenda is carb free, you can't buy it in stores in
the U.S. but you can order it he

www.sweetzfree.com


In ,
Penelope Baker stated
| Greetings:
|
| What's the theory on Splenda? They claim it's carb free, but it's
| stuffed full of maltodextrin as a filler, which is almost as bad as
| straight glucose from what I can tell. Thoughts?
|
| --
| Peace,
| Pen
| --
| Pawbreakers - The Candy for Cats!
| http://www.pawbreakers.com

That's very expensive. Surely there must be a cheaper source for sucralose.

-Chad

"FOB" wrote in message
m...
There are 24 g. carb in a cup of powdered Splenda because of the
maltodextrin. Liquid Splenda is carb free, you can't buy it in stores in
the U.S. but you can order it he

www.sweetzfree.com


In ,
Penelope Baker stated
| Greetings:
|
| What's the theory on Splenda? They claim it's carb free, but it's
| stuffed full of maltodextrin as a filler, which is almost as bad as
| straight glucose from what I can tell. Thoughts?
|
| --
| Peace,
| Pen
| --
| Pawbreakers - The Candy for Cats!
| http://www.pawbreakers.com

No there isn't and it's highly concentrated so goes a long way. Powdered
Splenda is pretty expensive compared to sugar, too.


In ,
Chad C. stated
| That's very expensive. Surely there must be a cheaper source for
| sucralose.
|
| -Chad
|
| "FOB" wrote in message
| m...
|| There are 24 g. carb in a cup of powdered Splenda because of the
|| maltodextrin. Liquid Splenda is carb free, you can't buy it in
|| stores in the U.S. but you can order it he
||
|| www.sweetzfree.com
||
||
|| In ,
|| Penelope Baker stated
||| Greetings:
|||
||| What's the theory on Splenda? They claim it's carb free, but it's
||| stuffed full of maltodextrin as a filler, which is almost as bad as
||| straight glucose from what I can tell. Thoughts?
|||
||| --
||| Peace,
||| Pen
||| --
||| Pawbreakers - The Candy for Cats!
||| http://www.pawbreakers.com

In article , "Chad C."
writes:

That's very expensive. Surely there must be a cheaper source for sucralose.

-Chad


I havent seen one. and at 13.00 for a box of 700 servings in Costco/Sams/BJs,no
one is cheap.
As always YMMV and this is JMO
Jeanne Type 2 Diagnosed 05/28/02
194/164/120

"Chad C." wrote in message
...
That's very expensive. Surely there must be a cheaper source for
sucralose.

-Chad


It may seem expensive but it is really not. The tiny bottle contains the
equivelant of 24 cups of sugar and it tastes great!

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Regards,
Evelyn

(to reply to me personally, remove 'sox")


"FOB" wrote in message
m...
There are 24 g. carb in a cup of powdered Splenda because of the
maltodextrin. Liquid Splenda is carb free, you can't buy it in stores
in
the U.S. but you can order it he

www.sweetzfree.com


In ,
Penelope Baker stated
| Greetings:
|
| What's the theory on Splenda? They claim it's carb free, but it's
| stuffed full of maltodextrin as a filler, which is almost as bad as
| straight glucose from what I can tell. Thoughts?
|
| --
| Peace,
| Pen
| --
| Pawbreakers - The Candy for Cats!
| http://www.pawbreakers.com

Chad C. burbled across the ether:
That's very expensive. Surely there must be a cheaper source for
sucralose.

"you only need 1 drop to equal the sweetness of approximately 1.5
teaspoons of sugar. Or, 1/4 teaspoon to equal the sweetness of 1 cup of
sugar.
1 ounce : $16.00 ( 24 cups sugar equivalent)
2 ounces : $30.00 ( 48 cups sugar equivalent)

4 ounces : $58:00 ( 96 cups sugar equivalent)"


One 3.8 oz box of splenda is 3.50, for the equivilent sweetening power
of four cups. (I got this by back-calculating -- 24g per cup, so 48 tsp
at .5 per, divided by stated # of tsp servings --200. 200/48=4.16)

Splenda granualar 3.8 oz box, 4.16 / 3.50 = $1.18 per cup

Sweetzfree 1 liquid oz, 24 (equivilent sweetening cups) / $16.00 = $1.5
per cup

Sweetzfree 2 liquid oz, 48 (equivilent sweetening cups) /30 = $1.6 per
cup

Sweetzfree 4 liquid oz, 96(equivilent sweetening cups) /58= $1.65 per
cup

A 40 cent to 55 cent increase in the cost per cup for the privilege of
removing the maltodextrin which not only has carbs but tastes bad to
some is well worth it for many.

For comparison, DaVinci's vanilla (there is no non-flavored syrup) is
$8.95 (lowest price) per 25.4 fluid ounces, or 3.17 cups-- price $2.82
per cup.

Much more reasonable than it has any right to be.

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