Sugar vs Equal vs SweetnLow vs Splenda

[bigrash]

which one is better? can you tell the difference?

 

[BChico]

Originally posted by: bigrash
which one is better? can you tell the difference?

Splenda blows

 

[neutralizer]

Sugar substitutes blow. Just exercise, you fat lards. Quit ordering a double cheeseburger with a diet soda.

 

[effowe]

I use Stevia, but no, I can't tell the difference.

 

[Valkerie]

Sugar owns.

 

[cjgallen]

Originally posted by: neutralizer
Sugar substitutes blow. Just exercise, you fat lards. Quit ordering a double cheeseburger with a diet soda.

:thumbsup:

 

[Drakkon]

depends on what its going in...in my food i prefer sugar but in my drinks (ice tea, coffee) i prefer sweet & low or splenda...

 

[Legend]

Sugar, but I hardly ever eat it.

My parents get these Kroger sucralose yogurts. I typically eat yoplait, which I admit has too much sugar in it. But I can tell the difference immediately.

 

[nakedfrog]

Nothing beats pure cane sugar. Well, maybe black tar heroin, but even then, it's kinda close.

 

[bigrash]

Originally posted by: neutralizer
Sugar substitutes blow. Just exercise, you fat lards. Quit ordering a double cheeseburger with a diet soda.

I'm 150 lbs so i guess i'm pretty fat. :roll:

and i bet you that you couldn't even keep up with my workout schedule.

 

[Saulbadguy]

Originally posted by: neutralizer
Sugar substitutes blow. Just exercise, you fat lards. Quit ordering a double cheeseburger with a diet soda.

Diabetes?

 

[shimsham]

psa: there is an article on sweeteners in the august issue of discover.

 

[neutralizer]

Originally posted by: bigrash

Originally posted by: neutralizer
Sugar substitutes blow. Just exercise, you fat lards. Quit ordering a double cheeseburger with a diet soda.

I'm 150 lbs so i guess i'm pretty fat. :roll:

and i bet you that you couldn't even keep up with my workout schedule.

I never said you were fat. I wasn't even referring to you.

As for diabetes, you're supposed to take sugar in moderation not like a fat kid on a cupcake.

 

[SynthDude2001]

IMO, Splenda is the best artificial sweetener, Equal is decent, but Sweet 'n Low (Saccharin) is pretty nasty. I tried some on some fruit once and wanted to vomit.

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Nothing beats pure cane sugar. Well, maybe black tar heroin, but even then, it's kinda close.

:laugh:

 

[SilentRavens]

I just use plain old sugar.

 

[eplebnista]

Sugar

 

[ToeJam13]

Sugar is sucrose (C12-H22-O11, sweetener)
Equal is aspartame (C14-H18-N2-O5, sweetener), dextose and maltodextrin (fillers)
Sweet-n-Low is saccharin (C7-H5-N-O3-S, sweetener) and dextrose (filler)
Splenda is sucralose (C12-H19-Cl3-O8, sweetener)

(H = Hydrogen, C = Carbon, N = Nitrogen, O = Oxygen, S = Sulfer, Cl = Chlorine)

I started as a kid eating and drinking products high in sugar and corn syrup, both built with glucose and fructose molicules.

I never liked the taste of aspartame, so I never drank it.

Eventuall, I found several drinks made with aspartame that I didn't find revolting (Diet 7-Up, ICE, Safeway carbonated fruit drinks), so I began to drink them. Eventually, sugar became "too sweet" for me, so I stopped consuming lots of products with it... namely soda.

Recently, I made the switch over to sucralose by way of diet Arizona Ice Tea. Carbonated ICE and Diet Rite also switched over, so I drink those too. Having consumed both for nearly half a year, aspartame is now starting to taste odd for me. Regular diet coke tastes bad now. Coke Zero has different ratios of potassium benzoate to aspartame than regular Diet Coke, so it doesn't taste as bad. Unfortinately, Coke with Splenda tastes like flat Coke Classic, so I tend to avoid it still.

So in short, if you're used to Spenda, it tastes the best. If you're used to Equal, it tastes best. If you used to sugar or corn syrup, all three diet sweeteners taste like crap. If you drink diet sweeteners, glucose + fructose based sweeteners are too sweet.

No major soft drink company uses Naturlose (commercial name for D-tagatose, C6H12O6 enantiomer) yet. Its a low calorie sweetener that has only 10-15% of the calorie value of sugar. It is supposedly as close to the real thing without being it.

 

[Amused]

Sugar, of course.

Of the artificial sweetners, sucralose (Splenda), followed by aspartame (Equal), followed by saccharin (Sweet n Low).

 

[JonnyStarks]

Bruce Lee

 

[Schadenfroh]

Splenda rocks!

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: neutralizer
Sugar substitutes blow. Just exercise, you fat lards. Quit ordering a double cheeseburger with a diet soda.

Lets see here........

I use splenda and i am about 165lbs at 6'. I am a fat slob, i take it? I like the fact that i can dissolve it with ease at room temperature or cold in my tea and i really cant taste that much of a difference. Real cokes taste far too sweet to me, that is why i prefer the splenda cokes.

 

[Saulbadguy]

Why hasn't stevia been approved by the FDA yet as a food?

 

[BurnItDwn]

Sugar ... the rest are utter crap.

 

[dug777]

Sugar FTW.