[ShepherdsDog]

http://www.ksat.com/health/splenda-link ... tudy-finds

$1:

Nutrition watchdog group Center for Science in the Public Interest is formally recommending that consumers avoid sucralose. Artificial sweetener Splenda is sucralose-based.

It’s a big deal considering this is the same company that listed sucralose as a safe alternative to sugar prior to the new research findings.

There are quite a few people out there that consume this like there's no tomorrow. I bought a bag last summer of the granulated and the brown sugar, and I've barely used any. I occasionally have a Splenda based coffee syrup as a treat in the afternoon and that's about it. I don't put sweetener on cereal and if I have yogurt i add fruit to sweeten it.

In related news, birth remains the no.1 cause of death.

[herbie]

For those too stupid to eat a smaller piece of cake - $30 worth of Splenda instead of sugar. Same people who buy half size cans of Coke for $1 more
I remember sprinkling sugar on a grapefruit when I was a kid (they only had the sour/bitter white ones in the store back then) but FFS I saw a friend letting her kid put sugar on a goddam watermelon last summer. Where I live, take a look at what's in people's shopping carts when the rez cheques come out. We're MAKING diabetics as fast as we possibly can.

[andyt]

Xylitol

[DrCaleb]

andyt andyt:

Xylitol

Xylitol, malitol and similar sweetners are also laxatives in any meaningful quantity. Enough to bake a cake would mean anything near a slice of cake would mean an afternoon on the toilet. And you can't bake with them anyhow.

Splenda is almost a sugar substitute you can bake with. But cakes and things end up not rising very high.

Better to just use sugar, and have smaller portions or skip sweets altogether.

[andyt]

I mostly use sugar, but I skip the cakes and such. Just sugar in my tea, cereal, bread, and who knows where else they add it.

But I have a couple of xylitol candies after dinner. Gives the sense of having something sweet without wanting to eat a whole bunch as it would with sugar that gives that high - low reaction.

[DrCaleb]

andyt andyt:

I mostly use sugar, but I skip the cakes and such. Just sugar in my tea, cereal, bread, and who knows where else they add it.

But I have a couple of xylitol candies after dinner. Gives the sense of having something sweet without wanting to eat a whole bunch as it would with sugar that gives that high - low reaction.

Exactly. Most candies have a blend of more than one sweetener so you can have more than two without getting the trots.

I hardly ever use sugar. I tend to use honey or blue agave in my tea.

If I use splenda, it would be in a place I'd use sugar, and then I use it 50/50 with sugar. Like in a pie.

[PluggyRug]

Only time I have sweetener is with my breakfast cereal with blackberries, just a dash of maple syrup.