 |
Because it is so intensely sweet, a teaspoon of Splenda would contain just a tiny amount of the actual sucralose powder. To bulk it up so that it can be used in the same quantity as sugar for recipes, they use a bulking agent.
Guess what the bulking agent is in Splenda? It's puffed-up corn syrup solids. Yes, indeed, real sugar -- well, sort of. Corn syrup is the sugar that gets into the blood stream faster than any other sugar, and it is a major culprit in sugar-induced diabetes.
Splenda (sucralose) is now found in more than 3,000 products, bringing huge financial rewards to Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceuticals, which makes it. It has overtaken Equal (aspartame) in the tabletop sweetener market.