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try to put splenda into fitday ~ need help

don't know if i'm using the right board...but I'm trying to put splenda into fitday...it says that if it has 1 carb grm then it should have 4 calories, but the box says it has none. This is aggravating..I'm trying to keep tabs on my fat, protein, carbs and calories...but if i keep having to "fix" things so fitday will accept them I'm not going to get an accurate account. Can anyone help me, please? or direct me to thread that will?

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Originally Posted by freckles

Anything under 5 calories or 1 gram can legally be called 0 calories or 0 grams.

1 serving of splenda (1 teaspoon) contains half a gram of carbohydrate and 2 calories. A tablespoon of splenda is 1.5 carbs and 6 calories.

It's not that fitday is incorrect (well with some sugar alcohols it is), its just because of our labeling laws something can be listed as having 1 carb but zero calories, legally. In truth, if it has 1 carb it also has 4 calories.

Hmm. I managed to program Splenda in with everything as a 0, except for the carb count, which I put in as .5. It didn't seem to have a problem with that.