This is not a joke! It is meant to be somewhat entertaining but I am at least partly serious about this!

Background:
No company (that I know of) is currently allowed to sell powdered or liquid sucralose for the "table-top" in the US as this conflicts with the makers of Splenda brand sucralose.

If a co-op of low carbers bought a kilo of pure commercial sucralose, that co-op would need some method of redistribution that would not bring down the legal wrath of J&J/McNeil.

More Background (trust me, it's related):
Certain discounted copies of Microsoft software are only allowed to be sold along with computer hardware. Software resellers can (and do) get around this by selling this software with ANY computer hardware (like a mouse) not just a whole computer Microsoft had in mind when it wrote the rules.

Even More Background:
During prohibition, grape juice and yeast were sold together and the package included a warning that said:
Do not (insert wine-making directions here) as this would result in an illegal substance!

The Crazy Plan:
How about getting around the "table-top" sucralose ban by some analagous method? Since you can resell sucralose when it is an ingredient in another product...

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World's Sweetest Crouton Kit

Package contents:
1 gram flour in little bitty bag
10 grams powdered sucralose in separate bag

Directions:
Combine packet A with packet B along with 1 teaspoon water. Shape into cube and bake until it resembles a crouton.

*Warning* Do not simply THROW AWAY THE FLOUR and USE THE SUCRALOSE IN COOKING and/or as a sweetener for non-crouton foods as this would make J&J/McNeil quite cross!

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Unflavoured novelty beverage powder containing only pure sucralose.

(But it's NOT table-top sucralose, JnJ/McN! Honest!)

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Mild abrasive cleaner for food preparation surfaces made of nothing more than 100% pure sucralose.

(Think they'd complain if you resold sucralose as a non-toxic, food-grade coffee-pot cleanser?)

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If you have any other product ideas, please post. Again, I'm only half kidding about this.

What would be the best vehicle to use to deliver non-table-top sucralose to the tabletop of the low-carbers?

Also, anyone have any idea what commercial sucralose costs? If the sweetening power of sucralose is 600 times that of sugar... perhaps sucralose is made from 600 times it's weight in sugar. One kilo of pure sucralose would be made from 600 kilos of sugar (1300 lbs). This would likely cost about the same as sugar for the same sweetness equivalent (otherwise diet soda would not cost the same amount as a regular soda).

At retail, refined sugar is about 50 cents a pound. Commercially, raw sugar is only a few cents a pound. 1300 lbs of sugar at a commercial price of just a few cents a pound would be on the order of a $75-300. So pure sucralose might be about that per kilo... wholesale. Does anyone know how much Best Body used to sell it for?