Splenda?
I am a really big iced tea drinker and used to go through a box of sweet and low in a week. About a month and a half ago I got very worried about how much aspertame I was taking in so I switched to splenda.
Are the different types of splenda different in their taste? I bought the boxes of splenda with the spout so I could sweeten a pitcher of tea all at once. While I like it it has a distinct taste to it. Not a funny taste but an almost too sweet but not sweet enough taste. It is very hard to explain but I was wondering if buying the packets and sweetening each glass that I drink instead might give it a better sweetness? I figure someone here has to know a lot about splenda. |
DEM, ol' buddy, ol' pal! I'm an iced tea drinker myself. What I do is sweeten the whole gallon with 4 packets of Splenda and either 4 packets of Sweet 'n Low or 40 drops of liquid saccharin. (The saccharin drops are a bit better than the saccharin packets because there are NO carbs in the drops.)
Combining sweeteners has a synergistic effect. Not only do combined sweeteners taste more like sugar, but they seem to sweeten more. So my combination above makes the tea taste sweeter than if I did 8 packets of Splenda or 8 packets of Sweet 'n Low. Of course, you may like your tea sweeter or less sweet than mine, but that's easy to adjust. |
Oh, and Sweet 'n Low is saccharin, not aspartame. Here's a quick rundown of the most common tabletop sweeteners.
Sweet 'n Low = saccharin Splenda = sucralose Equal = aspartame Sugar Twin = saccharin in the US, cyclamate in Canada Oh, and one more thing. The pourable Splenda measures like sugar, so it's not as sweet as the stuff in the packets. |
Another idea...to cut the carbs from the granular or packets (not that it's that many :lol: ) is to use Da Vinci or Torani flavored syrups in your tea. I've started doing this and it tastes great! Gives it plenty of sweet and just a hint of the flavor you use...I've tried vanilla and strawberry.
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Thanks guys this has helped a lot. So is sachrin as bad as they say aspertame is? I am not trying to have cancer or a dead kidney by the time I am 26! I have liquid sweetner too so I am going to try a mix and see how it comes out.
So The Da Vinci syrups are good? I was actually looking at their website today and thinking about getting some bottles. I doubt cookie dough iced tea would be the greatest thing on earth but maybe watermelon. I steep my iced tea for a very long time so its about as strong as it can be so I always have to use a little more sweetner then normal(when I used sugar) but I am going to try cutting it back to the normal amount of splenda and see how it works. |
Look for a product called Miracle Sweet. It is xylitol and by far the best sweetener I've used. It's teaspoon for teaspoon what you would use as sugar.
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This is pretty interesing...I haven't seen it yet. Xylitol is a sugar alcohol, though, in case you're trying to stay away from those. Da Vinci and Torani are both good...at least the 4 flavors I've tried. Do you have a World Market near you? That's where I found the Torani. Wal-Mart had vanilla and hazelnut Da Vinci in the coffee isle, so if you have a Wal-Mart, try there too. Just make sure you get the bottles that say Sugar Free on them. |
I think I am going to go out and buy some of that syrup. Lucky me the Super Walmart and the World Market are literally right next to each other.
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