Re: Splenda, carbs

[Guest guest]

We were told from the beginning by our dietician that since Splenda is in a

powdered form, it contains more carbs than liquid sweeteners. It may be one of

those things where they just want to be safe, and it is possible that it really

won't affect the calculations much, but just in case, etc. We are told that

liquid sweet & low and sugar-substitutes like it are fine for the ketogenic

diet, in moderation, and we have never seen any bad effects from it. Personally,

I can not have anything with sucralose or Splenda as I get horrible headaches...

found this out recently as the new Pepsi Edge (low carb Pepsi) has sucralose & I

had a horrendous headache after trying that one.

Mom to Noah- age 3, med-free, & seizure-free on the keto diet

tnloveless tnloveless@...> wrote:

I don't post often, but I am very curious where people are getting

this information with Splenda/Sucrolose having carbs in it. All the

information I have found including on packaging there are 0 carbs,

therefor most reccomended by our dietician. We were told to stay

away from aspartame/nutrasweet since it has 1/2 carb per serving and

has been known to increase seizures in some people. All this

information I have seen on here has really confused me. I have never

seen any bad effects due to use of Splenda/Sucralose which we use on

a regular basis.

Check out this site : http://www.splenda.com/page.jhtml?

id=splenda/diabetes/main.inc

All data in here supports that there are no calories, although I did

just notice that they added carbs = less then 1g/ serving, which i

don't remeber seeing on packaging previously. Now I really don't

know what to think?????

Tina - mom to Nicky keto kid since 8/2001

> I never did use it to sweeten anything myself as it is only

available here in powder and I had checked it out and knew it had

carbs in it.

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> Also wanted to say, that when I was testing Mike's blood sugar

after I had started to put the pieces together but before I had taken

the splenda stuff away he was testing at 6.1!! Usually 4.9 is high

for him - couldnt believe it - no wonder ketones were down

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> Jenn

> Re: Splenda question

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> I am glad that you brought this subject up - I was going to post

> about this 'Splenda' stuff because I have noticed that a lot of

> people seem to use it but when I checked out the granulated stuff

in

> our supermarket, it was stuffed with carbs - in fact there wasn't

a

> granulated sweetner that we could use.

>

> Here in the UK we use dissolved sweetex/hermasetas tablets or the

> hermasetas liquid.

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> Emma - Mum to

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[Guest guest]

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I have a good friend who gets severe headaches from Splenda, too.

The rest of her family uses it, but it doesn't work for her. Another

friend of ours has been drinking diet soda with aspartame for years

and recently discovered that he gets horrible headaches from that

now. Took forever to figure that out, because he'd been using it so

long without any problems. I personally get headaches from

saccharin, which I don't like to use anyway because I really don't

like the taste. Maybe that's psychosomatic... I dunno. I think

artificial " anythings " can be really helpful... or not.

Cammie

> We were told from the beginning by our dietician that since Splenda

is in a powdered form, it contains more carbs than liquid sweeteners.

It may be one of those things where they just want to be safe, and it

is possible that it really won't affect the calculations much, but

just in case, etc. We are told that liquid sweet & low and sugar-

substitutes like it are fine for the ketogenic diet, in moderation,

and we have never seen any bad effects from it. Personally, I can not

have anything with sucralose or Splenda as I get horrible

headaches... found this out recently as the new Pepsi Edge (low carb

Pepsi) has sucralose & I had a horrendous headache after trying that

one.

>

>

> Mom to Noah- age 3, med-free, & seizure-free on the keto diet

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