I read tthe ingredients for Splenda and it says...Dextrose, Maltodextrin, Sucralose..but isn't Dextrose sugar?

Question

I've been using splenda all over the place, but now i'm confused the main ingredient for Splenda is Dextrose...isn't that a just double glucose? Which is sugar....so basically Splenda has Sugar?
I know Sucralose is artificial...sugar/sweetener, and isn't digested...but dextrose is..and what is Maltodextrin.
I thought with splenda, i was going to lose weight, but no change, actually i got bigger.

isn't dextrose digested by the body..so basically your eating sugar? that potentially turns into fa

wiki....Glucose (Glc), a monosaccharide (or simple sugar), is an important carbohydrate in biology. The cell uses it as a source of energy and metabolic intermediate. Glucose is one of the main products of photosynthesis and starts cellular respiration in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes. The name comes from the Greek word glykys (γλυκύς), which means "sweet", plus the suffix "-ose" which denotes a carbohydrate.

Two isomers of the aldohexose sugars are known as glucose, only one of which (D-glucose) is biologically active. This form (D-glucose) is often referred to as dextrose (dextrose monohydrate), especially in the food industry. This article deals with the D-form of glucose. The mirror-image of the molecule, L-glucose, cannot be used by cells.

Answer 1

The trimer is dextrose which is digestible, but the others aren't.

The Sucralose is a sugar and is sweet, but has VERY low caloric content, and the Maltodextrin is just a carbohydrate filler, which if you eat enough of it, will be fattening, but in small doses, like in this case, it is negligible (not to mention it is VERY SWEET).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucralose
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltodextrin

Answer 2

The manufacturer of Splenda explains that it has, in addition of sucralose,-the no-calorie sweetener-, very small amounts of "common food ingredients", "for volume" (that means that if they only put sucralose on it, the small amount needed would be very difficult to handle, so they make more volume by adding other ingredients). The amount of that other ingredients, mainly dextrose (which is the chemically name of glucose) and maltodextrine (a carbohydrate component of some foods) is so small that it does not represent an intake of a significant amount of calories, so it still fits to the FDA's definition of "no-calorie product"

Answer 3

actually, all of them are sugars, except for sucralose. Maltodextrin is a polymer form of sugar that is harder to digest. And yes, dextrose is basically glucose.

Answer 4

dextrose is a 2 chain carbohydrate

Answer 5

> ....so basically Splenda has Sugar?

Yep. It says, "made from sugar" right on the box.

But it has zero calories, so it should be an effective sugar substitute if your trying to lose weight. It worked for me!