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Splenda

fumanchu

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Aghast at reading the label on a box of Splenda - 98.8g of carbs - what do other people on LC use for sweetening coffee ?
 
fumanchu said:
Aghast at reading the label on a box of Splenda - 98.8g of carbs - what do other people on LC use for sweetening coffee ?
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Hi I don’t drink coffee but can tolerate a small amount of honey to sweeten recipes/drinks and have just discovered agave which seems to have little effect on me and tastes lovely. Sorry not to have specifically answered your question but hope it’s useful info!
 
Now a days I drink my coffee with cream and it needs no sweetener - but I used to use the tiny tablets - they weigh so little that they are hardly going to have any impact on your intake of carbs.
 
Will look into these, thanks!
 
fumanchu said:
Double cream isn't sweetening though. Nice, but not sweet.
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But it does alter the perception of the taste.
I think you can get liquid Splenda which has no fillers, which is what the carbs are - maltodextrin etc. to absorb the liquid.
 
Hi @fumanchu , many members go cold turkey with giving up sweet things once diagnosed type 2. However, I still eat sweet things with sweeteners rather than sugar. My HbA1c is consistently at non diabetic levels, I’ve lost a shed load of weight and have no diabetic complications, so no regrets.
Now back to Splenda, take a look at these two images, taken from the Tesco dot com website, the first image does indeed state 98.8g carb per 100g but one teaspoon contains less than 1g of carbs! You always need to consider how much of something you are using as well as the carb count per se. One spoonful in a coffee will not be adding hugely to your daily carb count, even 5 mugs a day carbs will still be in single figures for the Splenda.
 
I have not put sugar in my tea or coffee since 1969. My mother had diabetes. Now, coffee or tea with sugar taste yeuch!

Diet drinks with artificial sugar leave an aftertaste in mouth for sometimes up to 24 hours, meaning that I do not drink it. Normal soda/pop with sugar is also avoided like poison.
 
MrsA2 said:
Go sugar free and after a while it will taste sweet! Trust me it will.
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I drink my coffee black no sugar or other sweeteners, I sometimes have a small pinch of salt in it occasionally.

When I have a mug of tea it is sweetener free as well, I don't put salt in tea though.
 
We have splenda in the cupboard and use it in recipes that would require sugar. The instructions on the packet are somewhat opaque but the general idea is that 1g of splenda can be used instead of 10g of sugar, so you need very little to sweeten something.
 
Hi @fumanchu I don't' really drink coffee but have copious amounts of tea throughout the day I use Erythritol as a sweetener. .
 
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