What exactally is Splenda made of?

Answer 1

It is made of a material that has reactive sites with your taste buds to produce a sweet taste.
However, the compound is not able to broken down in your digestive system, so it imparts no calories.

Answer 2

Splenda®
Splenda is the brand name for an artificial sweetener called sucralose. It is manufactured from sugar by moving some atoms around on the sucrose (sugar) molecule to make sucralose.

Think of the sucrose molecule as your left hand and the sucralose molecule as your right hand. Both are hands and they work pretty much the same way. The difference is that the sucralose molecule is not absorbed into the body, so there are no calories. (And no side effects.)

You can use sucralose almost like sugar – for the most part it measures, bakes and cooks just like sugar. The Blueberry Muffins recipe uses sucralose, as well as dessert recipes such as Crème Caramel and Key Lime Pie, yet all three have different cooking processes.

In the recipes that I have used this product, it does work very much like sugar, however it is not perfect in every case. I made chocolate sauce, for example, where the results were not as good as in other recipes. The mouthfeel was different enough that granulated sugar made the better recipe.

Answer 3

The sweet part of Splenda is Sucralose - an artificial sweetener. Splenda also has maltodextrin and dextrose (both made from corn) added as "bulking agents." No foods are more researched for safety than artificial sweeteners so you may consume with confidence.

Answer 4

this is off splenda's website

SPLENDA® is the brand name for the ingredient sucralose. It is made through a patented, multi-step process that starts with sugar and converts it to a no calorie, non-carbohydrate sweetener. The process selectively replaces three hydrogen-oxygen groups on the sugar molecule with three chlorine atoms. Chlorine is present naturally in many of the foods and beverages that we eat and drink every day ranging from lettuce, mushrooms and table salt. In the case of sucralose, its addition converts sucrose to sucralose, which is essentially inert. The result is an exceptionally stable sweetener that tastes like sugar, but without sugar's calories. After consumption, sucralose passes through the body without being broken down for energy, so it has no calories, and the body does not recognize it as a carbohydrate.

http://www.splenda.com/page.jhtml?id=splenda/faqs/nocalorie.inc#q2

the website had lots of smiling family pictures, Made me think of Stepford wifes, super twee pics. Not sure about the product though

Answer 5

It is made from sucralose. But contrary to what the company tells you, it is NOT made from sugar. In fact, the sugar companies are suing Splenda because of they continue to say this. The makers of Splenda create sucralose from using the base chemical molicules found in other places and put them together to form a substance similar to sugar. But they do not start off with sugar. They name it sucralose because the name is similar to sucrose which is a compound in natural sugar.

http://www.truthaboutsplenda.com/factvsfiction/index.html

Answer 6

It actually does have chlorine in it.....crazy but true!

"The inventors of Splenda admit around fifteen percent (15%) of sucralose is absorbed by the body, but they cannot guarantee us (out of this fifteen percent) what amount of chlorine stays in the body and what percent flushes out."

Why not just use sugar in moderation?

Answer 7

Nothing that I want to eat.

All about splenda:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splenda#Criticisms_and_controversy

Answer 8

It is sugar, but with the molecules changed

Answer 9

maltodextrin and sucralose