Splenda claims to take the calories out of sugar but sugar is simple carbohydrates, which translates as calories. How do they do that and still have something to sell?
2006-06-07 12:04:23 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
Obviously it's impossible. They must be advertising an artificial sweetener.
2006-06-07 12:32:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they take a sugar molecule and wash it with chlorine which alters your metabolism of the sugar - it blocks it from being absorbed in the body so it is eliminated without adding any calories. However it is sketchy what the long term affects of ingesting the chlorinated molecules might cause... ?
2006-06-08 12:13:35 · answer #2 · answered by curious one 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Basically they modify the sugar so that the body doesn't metabolize it. If the body doesn't metabolize it, then at least as far as the body is concerned it doesn't contain any calories. Of course it does contain energy (you could burn it in the lab and determine how many calories it contains in the lab), but not as far as the human body is concerned.
2006-06-07 20:58:08 · answer #3 · answered by jsn77raider 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not sugar.
http://www.mercola.com/2000/dec/3/sucralose_dangers.htm
2006-06-07 19:10:09 · answer #4 · answered by psych0bug 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋